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PcAaron
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Hello everyone, i was just wondering, with all this going on about the 970 only having 3.5GB of VRAM if i was to buy another 970 and have it SLI would that completely eliminate the worry about that slower chunk of 500mb Ram???

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SLI will still be 4GB(3,5) not 8 :) so dunno 

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No, you will still have 4gb of effective vram.

Edit: DX12 Might pool together the vram but we don't know yet.

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no it would still be the same.

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The ram isn't added together, so you would have 2 cards, but still the 3.5GB vram + 0.5GB which runs a bit slower....

I think there was something about dx12 changing something about this?
Someone else might know, but dx12 isn't out yet.

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The ram isn't added together, so you would have 2 cards, but still the 3.5GB vram + 0.5GB which runs a bit slower....

I think there was something about dx12 changing something about this?

Someone else might know, but dx12 isn't out yet.

so would i have 7GB normal Ram and 1Gb slow ram basically?

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so would i have 7GB normal Ram and 1Gb slow ram basically?

No you would have the same amount of Vram as with on card so 3.5gb + 0.5gb.
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