Is it worth getting a 970

[ColdDigital]

Is it worth getting a 970 despite the VRAM issue?

 

Will I be able to play games like WoW, Sins of a solar empire, Homeworld on ultra settings?

 

Ty,

[Lotus]

WoW is a heavily single-threaded CPU limited game during raids.

 

If you care about price to performance ("Is it worth it") then just get an R9 290 for 2/3rds the price. It's very close to performance and won't start stuttering when the GPU tries to allocate more than 3.5GBs.

[STRMfrmXMN]

Is it worth getting a 970 despite the VRAM issue?

 

Will I be able to play games like WoW, Sins of a solar empire, Homeworld on ultra settings?

 

Ty,

They will play at Ultra LVL X settings, yes.

[Castdeath97]

Yes if you game at 1080p, but I will usually look at the r9 390 if you plan in upgrading to higher resolutions in the future.

[KE2012]

We need more information, what resolution you aiming at? But most likely yes. 

[pedro69]

The GTX 970 is still a great card for 1080p, you will definitely be able to play those games on ultra/high settings.

[ColdDigital]

We need more information, what resolution you aiming at? But most likely yes. 

1080p, later in a year or so ill upgrade to 1440p probably.

[PineappleHolidays]

Is it worth getting a 970 despite the VRAM issue?

 

Will I be able to play games like WoW, Sins of a solar empire, Homeworld on ultra settings?

 

Ty,

Should be fine

 

But I would get a 390

[KE2012]

1080p, later in a year or so ill upgrade to 1440p probably.

 

The vram issues won't really come out to play if your only going up to 1440p. The 970 will be able to play those games at high-ultra with a good fps although I would maybe check out a 390 if the price isn't that much greater. 

[sto1c]

The 970 is a very capable card at 1080p and will probably eat those games for breakfast. If you want to game in 1440p in the future you could go for SLI or a single 980Ti.