Will Nvidia ever release a driver for the 512 MB of the GTX 970?

emtasty123 · Feb 9, 2015

I built a PC with an MSI Classic GTX 970 and want to know whether than 3.5 GB+ .5 GB at much lower clock speeds issue will be fixed in the future.

Suztera · Feb 9, 2015

It's not an issue. It's how the card is designed. The future drivers may probably try to run games under 3.5GB vram where possible. It may not.
The GTX 970 still performs as expected when it was released.

renz496 · Feb 9, 2015

There is no fix to begin with. Nvidia awarely design 970 that way. So the drivers will be tweak according how the card was design since day one.

ak47jar3d · Feb 9, 2015

Nope, it was intenional by NVIDIA. Gtx 970 owners can be glad that this was not a kepler based card, but it is not possible to remove cache without disabling the vram that goes with it. It kind of irrelevant anyways, if you want the no compromises card, you should buy gtx 980

emtasty123 · Feb 11, 2015

ak47jar3d :

Well sorry but some people don't want to pay 550-600 on a card that's only 10-15 percent more powerful than its little brother which costs 200-250 less.

ak47jar3d · Feb 11, 2015

True, i couldn't agree more. But if you want the best you are always going to pay a premium for it. And if 4 gb compared to 3.5 gb really makes that much of a difference to the person buying the card then the reduced cuda count will be a deal breaker for sure. So my advise remains the same: if you want the no compromises solution, get a gtx 980.

emtasty123 · Feb 11, 2015

ak47jar3d :

Well, If I could, I'd buy a 980 but its out my budget, so I got the 970. Its fine. I heard people are working on VRAM stacking, so I can wait.

renz496 · Feb 11, 2015

Nvidia should have been working on it from the beginning. They already mention that they will optimize the driver to use fthe first 3.5gb first. As i understand it the design of 970 was,supposed to be improvement to their previous design (like 192 bit card with 2gb VRAM).

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