gtx 970 vram problem(so which gpu should i get)

[anonymous_user_8d09ebd2]

@DarkHorror;214026

Where the heck do you guys come up with painfully incorrect information. It’s the age of the internet it’s easy to look up and correct. 290x has much more memory bandwidth than the 970. The 970 has 192 GB/s + 24 GB/s while the 290 and 290x both have 320 GB/s. While in games the 290x and 970 have similar performance the 290x winning some the 970 winning some.

The 960 doesn’t come close to the 290x as reviews show, the 960 is a terrible card for the price unless all you care about is power consumption. It’s barely faster than the 760. You can get the 280 for around 150 which has similar performance to the 960, and the 280 has 3gb of ram so gives much better performance after the 960 runs out of it’s 2gb of vram.

You might wish to invest in reading glasses prior to attempting to say information is inaccurate. Would do you well since then you won’t be arguing against the wrong thing. I did, after all, not mention the memory bandwidth. I said the memory clock speed which is 1,753 MHz in the GTX 960 compared with 1,250 MHz in the R9 290x; the core clock speed also comes out ahead at 1,127 MHz compared with 1,000 MHz.

There are some advantages to the R9 over the 960, but when you get down to all the passmark scores and frame rate tests the R9 290x only has a slight advantage over the 960 not at all worth the significant price difference in my opinion. Yet most certainly the 290x is no where even close to competing with the 970.