Can Nvidia be trusted regarding 980ti's vram specs

[maizenblue]

Does anything think Nvidia might try to pull another 970 with the 980 ti and mislead people about the card's VRAM? The 980 ti is apparently a cut down Titan X, as the 970 was a cut down 980, so I'll be curious to see if Nvidia dares try the same thing again regarding their VRAM specs.

 

The 980 ti has half as much VRAM as the TitanX so I doubt that will be the case, but I don't doubt Nvidia would do the exact same thing they did with another card they did with the 970, as the 970 is still to this day advertised as a 4 GB card.

 

And before some Nvidia fanboys throw a fit, yes I know technically you can claim the 970 has 4 GB of VRAM, but over half a gig of that VRAM is so crippled as to be completely useless in modern games.

[Lolzious]

uhhhhhh... I don't think they want another RAM gate.

[Zeke]

If you're uncertain, just wait for reviews, I'm sure lots of people would like to check that, especially after the 970gate.

 

"970gate" is one of the most retarded things I've ever said in my entire life and I apologize.

[Guest Kloaked]

Well the 980 Ti is speculated to be a cut-down Titan X, so I doubt anyone's going to complain.

[minibois]

I'm fairly certain not everyone at Nvidia even knew about the 970's RAM at its release.

And they sure are going to test it this time, so yeah.

And 100% of the reviewers will test it

 

But we don't even know really anything about the 980 Ti

[Glenwing]

There's no need to trust them. Every reviewer will SURELY be testing this topic in detail so the fact of the matter will be out in the open.

[KieranFretwell]

I think they learned their lesson.. 

[Wander Away]

I doubt they will make the same mistake twice

[VagabondWraith]

I don't think Nvidia would be that dumb, but stranger things have happened.

[Sousuke]

I think there is a nVidia internal note to the engineers which states:

 

Screw up the VRam on the next card and you're all fired.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

as the 970 is still to this day advertised as a 4 GB card.

the 970 to this day IS a 4gb card.

people forget that this isn't the only graphics card to have two memory pools. my beloved 660 ti has a 1.5 GB RAM pool and a .5 gb RAM pool that is slower, and it makes up 25% of the total RAM, a lot more than the 12.5% of the 970, and nobody complained about that.

the card you get is the way that it is, and has the performance that it has. I don't believe we should hang a company because we don't like the reason that a card performs the way that it does. unless NVidia were to actually claim a card had 4GB of memory when it really had 3.5, they didn't do anything wrong, it just happens to be the way that they cut down the 980 to create the 970.

I also don't think the 980 ti will have any memory issues, I think it will be slightly locked down core with half the RAM, but until it is properly announced, it's all speculation.

[Mattrixx]

If they made the same mistake again... They'll never hear the end of it. If you think the 970 issue was bad, a 980ti vram issue would kill them. I can imagine: "Nvidia is trying to force slow RAM down our throats just to save a buck" and "Screw them, they're ruining the industry with inferior products and ripoffs, AMD4Lyfe"

[LiamApex]

Does anything think Nvidia might try to pull another 970 with the 980 ti and mislead people about the card's VRAM? The 980 ti is apparently a cut down Titan X, as the 970 was a cut down 980, so I'll be curious to see if Nvidia dares try the same thing again regarding their VRAM specs.

 

The 980 ti has half as much VRAM as the TitanX so I doubt that will be the case, but I don't doubt Nvidia would do the exact same thing they did with another card they did with the 970, as the 970 is still to this day advertised as a 4 GB card.

 

And before some Nvidia fanboys throw a fit, yes I know technically you can claim the 970 has 4 GB of VRAM, but over half a gig of that VRAM is so crippled as to be completely useless in modern games.

yes they can

[LegacyStijncat]

Nvidia got on Reddit, Twitter, everywhere for Ramgate, all explaining how bad they are.

 

Everyone heard of the BS.

 

Why would Nvidia WANT DO THAT AGAIN?

[maizenblue]

The reason I'm speculating Nvidia could try the same thing again is the fact they never did really apologize or own up to the VRAM thing, only to admitting that the card had less SMMs or whatever it was they disabled than their specs stated it had. They still to this day maintain the card has 4 GB of VRAM and advertise it as such, so I'm not so sure they wouldn't attempt the same thing again if they felt it would give them a percieved edge over an AMD card that had less VRAM on paper.

 

Yes reviewers will likely make sure the cards stated VRAM isn't crippled at all, and Nvidia would PROBABLY not want the negative publicity that would go along with reviewers discovering they did it again, BUT we are assuming everyone who buys Nvidia's cards obsess over such details, when a lot of people outside of forums like this probably don't.

 

If Nvidia did it AGAIN, they(and their fanboys) would again probably claim the benchmarks show what the card can do so its a non issue, and state that the card does "technically" have X amount of VRAM(even if some of it is gimped).

[Facety]

The reason I'm speculating Nvidia could try the same thing again is the fact they never did really apologize or own up to the VRAM thing, only to admitting that the card had less SMMs or whatever it was they disabled than their specs stated it had. They still to this day maintain the card has 4 GB of VRAM and advertise it as such, so I'm not so sure they wouldn't attempt the same thing again if they felt it would give them a percieved edge over an AMD card that had less VRAM on paper.

 

Yes reviewers will likely make sure the cards stated VRAM isn't crippled at all, and Nvidia would PROBABLY not want the negative publicity that would go along with reviewers discovering they did it again, BUT we are assuming everyone who buys Nvidia's cards obsess over such details, when a lot of people outside of forums like this probably don't.

 

If Nvidia did it AGAIN, they(and their fanboys) would again probably claim the benchmarks show what the card can do so its a non issue, and state that the card does "technically" have X amount of VRAM(even if some of it is gimped).

 

^^ THIS!!

 

Bear in mind that nVidia does sponsor some of the reviewers out there, so I wouldn't be surprised that if they do find an issue they will just skimp around and say 'oh we found this-that to be a bit slow, but overall its a great card compared to -insert nVidia top tier card here (like they did with the Titan,780and 780Ti)-, blah-blah, price-to-performance, blah-blah'.