TechPowerUp has voted, Majority doesn't care about GTX 970 fiasco

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Over the past week 7,300 users have cast their vote on how they feel about the 970 situation.
Based on their poll data , to the majority, the performance matters more than the specs, as 60.7% are still going to buy one. To me this makes perfect sense as the 970 is still a great card for its money, especially for 1080p gamers.
The next biggest group are of course the ones that are offended by the moral implications of all of it. 21.9% voted that they would not buy the card because Nvidia lied.
Next up, with 9%, are the people that never intended to buy the card in the first place. 
Now on to the owners of a GTX 970. Interestingly the people that we hear so much about, those that want to return their card, are only 3%. 
That leaves 5% of voters that want to wait for all the smoke to clear and then make a decision. 
 
So, do you agree with these results? Did they surprise you? 
 
I for one did not expect the number of people that will return the card to be this low. 
Sadly there is no way of knowing how many voters are owners vs. how many were potential buyers. 
 
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[Guest Kloaked]

Doesn't surprise me. I and other have been saying a majority of the people who are buying the card are not going to be playing at anything above 1080p, and most games right now are not going to have issues with the card's VRAM.

 

 

No I'm not excusing what Nvidia did.

[1Scotty1]

I really dont care about that "fiasco", I have an EVGA GTX970 SSC and a 1080p monitor, so I think I wont be seing many issues

[XTankSlayerX]

As someone with a Sub-1080p monitor.

 

Don't care.

[shadowblitz3]

not surprising at all

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Nothing surprising honestly...

 

People who are unhappy with nvidia are more vocal with it than those who don't give a shit.

 

GTX 970 is still a beast of a card and an unusable 0.5gb of vram doesn't automatically make it a wuss

having an unusable chunk of ram just means the beast is just missing an arm.

[Psykomantis00]

I'd be angry but I play at 4k. 

[Remilia]

I'm running Far Cry 4 at ultra with 60 fps so I can't say I care.

[Tim Drake]

Until 1440p and 4K become the main, I doubt Nvidia or the consumers will care.

 

They may fix it when more people have 1440p.

[Shaqo_Wyn]

I'd be angered if I owned one. If not, I side with the 21%. Buying one after the information that has come to light now is, signaling to Nvidia that they screwed people over and you're accepting it.

 

Especially when there are other cheaper alternatives out there ATM.

[zappian]

Not surprised at ALL.

 

However to people that say the 970 is the best card for the price , 280 bucks msi 290x.

 

Thats all i have to say.

[Bhav]

I'm on 1440p and don't care, there's still not enough difference between the 970 and 980 to justify the price difference. I'm keeping my 970s until Pascal.

[ShadowCaptain]

Yup still a good card so who cares

 

of course nvidia should be watched with caution

[bigbaddevil7]

Yea I have one of the cards, the whole things isn't very apparent day to day, but I do, do various tasks that does require more than the 3.5GB. If anything though the major reason I don't like my particular card is because there isn't a full waterblock for it...., but that's only due to the manufacture I got it from.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Yup still a good card so who cares

 

of course nvidia should be watched with caution

This.

 

Great card, but who's gunna outright believe Nvidia in the future without double checking now...

No one.

[d3sl91]

No! Everyone MUST be as ANGRY as I am! It'/s not okay if you are not angry. You must be ANGRY! and FURIOUS! that nvidia are LIARS that want to SCREW YOU OVER that HATE gamers and think they can LIE to computer and IT professionals. 

 

</sarcasm>

 

I think we're still a couple years off on 4k and 1440p. Honestly, I don't think 1440p will ever become mainstream, it will just skip over to 4k, because 4k is being promoted by everyone everywhere, even in the general consumer TV market.

[Mohenjo]

I swear all that really happened was that AMD fanboys got some material to use against nvidia. Dont get me wrong amd is pretty good i mean i have a 7850 and a 650ti boost so i enjoy both company's equally. But people keep saying that Nvidia is the worst AMD master race its just ignorant. I mean  with the 960 its a 200 dollar card not a 250 dollar card so why compare it to something not in the same price range? and for 200 its the a damn good card. and with the 970 its really not that big of a deal, your still getting pretty kickass performance. and before someone says some crap about me fanboying anyway i did not say what nvidia did was a not mistake with the 3.5 gb thing but its just not too big if a deal.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Who cares about the numbers, poeple keep telling this, specs means nothing for the most part,the 970 is great for games and frames, period!

[Sauron]

21% of lost customers would actually be a huge deal for nvidia.

 

But let's be honest, a 7300 people sample isn't representative of much, especially on techpowerup, where the average reader is at least partially tech literate.

[Megahurt]

I'm guessing those who upgrade their hardware frequently don't care, and those who buy more powerful cards than they need so they last longer probably care a lot more.

[OhNoesItsDobby]

I'm guessing those who upgrade their hardware frequently don't care, and those who buy more powerful cards than they need so they last longer probably care a lot more.

Bought one 2 days before this whole VRAM thing came to light, and initially didn't care.

However, I had it RMA'd for noise, and now the 290X has become the best bang for buck so I'm torn between them, and am part of the latter category. >_>

[cooperb21]

what about the other 20% who are not buying it now thoese are lost sales and damage to Nvidia.

[ApolloX75]

I still love my 970. It performed excellent before the vram hoopla and continues to perform just as well after. Don't care.