does nvidia vram now add up?

[pagani123]

i was looking at alienware site because it was in another post and there saying that they get 12 gb of vram from 3 4gb gtx 980s?

[Godlygamer23]

No, it does not add up. It is false advertising. The effective VRAM amount in those cards is still 4GB.

Edited August 22, 2015 by Godlygamer23

[Sauron]

Nope, it doesn't. But since it's technically there, they CAN say it has 12gb. Don't even consider buying an alienware desktop though.

[PlayStation 2]

>implying that Alienware tells the truth

No, VRAM won't stack unless in DX12 it is properly programmed to stack.

[pagani123]

believe me im not i was just wondering because of http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/435559-do-these-seem-extremely-overpriced-to-anyone-else/ this post

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

i was looking at alienware site because it was in another post and there saying that they get 12 gb of vram from 3 4gb gtx 980s?

typical alienware...

 

build a pc with components worth 2000$, sells the pc for 6000$  

 

doesnt even know about vram... wtf ;P 

 

vram doesnt stack in sli 

[arvark]

No.

[PineappleHolidays]

No, it does not add up. It is false advertising. The effective VRAM amount in that card is still 4GB.

^^ this

 

i was looking at alienware site because it was in another post and there saying that they get 12 gb of vram from 3 4gb gtx 980s?

alienware won't have different gpu's than any other manufacturer

 

 

 

 

Would be awesome if people stopped perpetuating this, and waited for proof on which gpu's / games can

[Dabombinable]

No, it does not add up. It is false advertising. The effective VRAM amount in that card is still 4GB.

They don't realise how much shit they could get into do they?

[Senzelian]

No, it does not add up. It is false advertising. The effective VRAM amount in that card is still 4GB.

It isn't a false advertisement.

There are physically 12GB of VRAM on those PCBs.

They don't realise how much shit they could get into do they?

They cannot. It's legal do to that.

[Godlygamer23]

They don't realise how much shit they could get into do they?

I mean technically it is 12GB. But it doesn't work that way and someone will be duped into thinking it is 12GB. Then someone will tell them how SLI works and they'll feel lied to.

[TheKDub]

i was looking at alienware site because it was in another post and there saying that they get 12 gb of vram from 3 4gb gtx 980s?

 

As there are 3 980s each with 4GB of VRAM there is a total of 12GB of VRAM, though you can only use up to 4GB total, not 12GB as VRAM does not stack.

[Godlygamer23]

It isn't a false advertisement.

There are physically 12GB of VRAM on those PCBs.

They cannot. It's legal do to that.

There are 4GB of VRAM on each PCB. Yes, it has 12GB of VRAM, but SLI doesn't function that way at all. The claim should be made on the function of SLI, not on the physical amount that's there. Because of the way SLI works, each card would need 4GB of VRAM.

[WinNut]

It isn't a false advertisement.

There are physically 12GB of VRAM on those PCBs.

They cannot. It's legal do to that.

Physically, yes, but they're implying that there's 12GB of effective VRAM when it's really 4GB.

[Senzelian]

There are 4GB of VRAM on each PCB. Yes, it has 12GB of VRAM, but SLI doesn't function that way at all. The claim should be made on the function of SLI, not on the physical amount that's there. Because of the way SLI works, each card would need 4GB of VRAM.

Physically, yes, but they're implying that there's 12GB of effective VRAM when it's really 4GB.

"The claim should be made on the function of SLI", if you've no idea about marketing.

Also did Alienware ever suggest them to run in SLI? It's possible to use them without it

That's what they say on their site:

Triple NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 graphics with 12GB total (3x 4GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI® Enabled

[Nena Trinity]

i was looking at alienware site because it was in another post and there saying that they get 12 gb of vram from 3 4gb gtx 980s?

In DX12 it may be 12gb but in DX11 nope they lied...

[arvark]

Physically you have 12GB and they're used, it's just that the game stores the same data on each card, so 12GBs are used but it will act as a 4GB card, plus SLI sucks at 3 way!