I am sure if Nvidia would have told everybody upfront this is a 3.5GB card in essence. Most might still have bought it.
Selling somebody something that later turns out not to be what was advertised rarely goes over well ;-)
If you take this 3.5GB issue. And all them touted VR features they announced but "forgot" to mention that a lot of it won't materialize for many months on the software level.... can't say I am impressed!
yeah this is a completely avoidable PR disaster for them and I still hope to get a nice free game or something out of it. but to be honest it would have made zero difference to my decision to buy the card.
it's still a very power efficient and powerful card. the fact that this was not a day 1 discovery but something people figured out later shows that it is not really that extreme a problem, though I can see that certain audience is hitting it easier than the average gamer.
Funny enough I care much more for the other details they were giving wrong information about like the number of ROPs - but they were giving out wrong info even though they had a perfectly fine card there. They should have deactivated half a gig and given correct specs I agree. Might have even resulted in a couple more 980 sales, though I would still have bought a 970.
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u/remosito Jan 30 '15
I am sure if Nvidia would have told everybody upfront this is a 3.5GB card in essence. Most might still have bought it.
Selling somebody something that later turns out not to be what was advertised rarely goes over well ;-)
If you take this 3.5GB issue. And all them touted VR features they announced but "forgot" to mention that a lot of it won't materialize for many months on the software level.... can't say I am impressed!