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The last 0.5gb of vram of the 970 are basically useless. Unless you're playing in 1440p or more it makes no difference anyways.

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So I am thinking about a 970.  I was reading some other forums and was confused.  I wanted clarification that the difference between the 970 and 980 is the RAM allocation.   So both have 4GB but the 980 is 4GB and the 970 is 3.5 + .5 GB?  Thanks.

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I'll say this all the time, if you don't care about TDP, get the R9 390. Just better raw performance compared to the 970.

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The last 0.5gb of vram of the 970 are basically useless. Unless you're playing in 1440p or more it makes no difference anyways.

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The last 0.5gb of vram of the 970 are basically useless. Unless you're playing in 1440p or more it makes no difference anyways.

Yeah.... Basically. If i wasn't a 1080p warrior i'd probably have gotten a 390. I just prefer the Nvidia software for the games i play. 

 

 

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I'm using a 970 with my 1440p panel and it runs great :)

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