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Nvidia's GTX 970 slows down when utilizing more than 3.5 GB of VRAM?

TypingWithClaws
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http://www.pcgamer.com/why-nvidias-gtx-970-slows-down-using-more-than-35gb-vram/

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Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not click on any links while the forums is in this state... Feel free to quote the article

 

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“The GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with 4GB of dedicated graphics memory. However the 970 has a different configuration of SMs than the 980, and fewer crossbar resources to the memory system. To optimally manage memory traffic in this configuration, we segment graphics memory into a 3.5GB section and a 0.5GB section. The GPU has higher priority access to the 3.5GB section. When a game needs less than 3.5GB of video memory per draw command then it will only access the first partition, and 3rd party applications that measure memory usage will report 3.5GB of memory in use on GTX 970, but may report more for GTX 980 if there is more memory used by other commands. When a game requires more than 3.5GB of memory then we use both segments.

Now I hope the gtx 970 isn't a true 4gb card stuff stops.

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Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not click on any links while the forums is in this state... Feel free to quote the article

 

Shouldn't be any more risk than pressing any link like opening thread etc... So then you shouldn't be doing that either.

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