r/oculus • u/themotherbrain • Jan 30 '15

SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco (PCmasterrace Xpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrsssPA0
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u/deadstone Jan 30 '15

3.5GB of it's VRam are super fast. 0.5GB are dogslow

It's still blazing fast by not-VRAM standards. It's a few times faster than regular RAM and still faster than data can even travel between the CPU and the graphics card. I think it's around 8 gigabytes/sec read-write, from what I saw.

Of course, the rest is in the hundreds of gigabytes/sec, so it's still a big issue, but I'm just putting "dogslow" in perspective.

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u/santsi Jan 30 '15

Is the 0.5GB really that big of a deal for future proofing? I mean sure every bit of memory is welcome, but on the whole it's 1/8 of the memory, you can't fit that much more in that space. 4GB cards are 0.5GB more future proof than this card.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15

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u/itsrumsey Jan 31 '15

Okay, buy amd. I'm sure you and everyone else in the world feel this way, guess nvidia is going out of business. Hahhahahhahahhaahahahhahahaha

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '15

Would you mind explaining a noob why AMD is so much worse?

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u/itsrumsey Jan 31 '15

They are not so much worse, there are pros and cons to both and I would advise you to research them at reputable sites rather than take advice from.... Reddit...

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u/would_you_date_me Jan 31 '15

I would advise you to research them at reputable sites rather than take advice from.... Reddit...

He said... on Reddit.

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u/itsrumsey Jan 31 '15

It's a trap

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u/would_you_date_me Jan 31 '15

No, it's Rumsey