Is the Gtx 970 3.5GB vram really a problem at 1080p ?

[gilang01]

By the time you play a game with ultra settings and uses more than 3.5 Gb, your 970 won't be able to give you a comfortable framerate

[xAcid9]

By the time you play a game with ultra settings and uses more than 3.5 Gb, your 970 won't be able to give you a comfortable framerate

Try play Dying Light max out with half view distance@1080p, you'll still getting 60FPS most of the time.

[Nena Trinity]

Maybe if you max out AA in some games that are super hardcore good!

[FinestRyeBread]

No I run Gta V max at 1080p with that and it works fine. Runs around 57-60 fps only using about 2.8-2.9gb of vram

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Not arguing, just saying....... that isn't exactly true. Yea it has 4 gigs, but those last 500 megs are so brutally slow, once you start actually using that portion of the RAM your performance will tank so hard. So saying its "usable" isn't exactly true. It is usable but it will hurt your performance horrible.

 

But, OP, its fine. 1080p isn't an issue at all.

 

Not that slow. Slower but much faster than regular RAM.

[DarkSmith2]

WDDM 2.0 is the answer, even if you use your DDR3 System RAM you wont notice any drops or stuttering anymore.

The GTX970 exactly performs like a 8GB vram card on win10/wddm 2.0 no reason to worry at all.

[LIGISTX]

Not that slow. Slower but much faster than regular RAM.

Much faster than RAM sure, but its orders of magnitude slower than the other 3.5 Gigs of RAM on the card. That is crippling.

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Much faster than RAM sure, but its orders of magnitude slower than the other 3.5 Gigs of RAM on the card. That is crippling.

 

Add flame stickers to fix the slow GDDR speed.

[DarkSmith2]

Add flame stickers to fix the slow GDDR speed.

i like your fan picture.