ziomuschio
970 is broken...video driver crash under stress....RMA please!!!!!

If you have registered your card, go to the top of the screen and click "My Profile" My Products and then select your 970 and start the RMA process. They can set it up for you strictly on the forum, but expect it to take a few days if one of the mods do not notify the Techs.

If you have not registered your card, go to Support, Guest RMA, and submit it that way.

Airwolf24
mine my new GTX 970 SSC (3975) step-up card failed at 3GB too

It's not failing anything. Come on...you guys don't know what you're looking at.
 
OMG! My TITAN has 500mb of defective memory!!!!!!
 

Nai's Benchmark
Allocating Memory . . .
Chunk Size = 128 MiByte
Press any key to continue . . .
Allocated 46 Chunks
Allocated 5888 MiByte
Benchmarking DRAM
Press any key to continue . . .
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 0 (0 MiByte to 128 MiByte): 264 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 1 (128 MiByte to 256 MiByte): 264 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 2 (256 MiByte to 384 MiByte): 264 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 3 (384 MiByte to 512 MiByte): 264 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 4 (512 MiByte to 640 MiByte): 265 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 5 (640 MiByte to 768 MiByte): 265 GByte/s
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DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 40 (5120 MiByte to 5248 MiByte): 265 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 41 (5248 MiByte to 5376 MiByte): 265 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 42 (5376 MiByte to 5504 MiByte): 8 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 43 (5504 MiByte to 5632 MiByte): 4 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 44 (5632 MiByte to 5760 MiByte): 4 GByte/s
DRAM-Bandwidth of Chunk no. 45 (5760 MiByte to 5888 MiByte): 8 GByte/s
 
Nvidia response for those interested...
 
http://www.pcper.com/news...-970-35GB-Memory-Issue

RainStryke
Nvidia response is no good TBH. This issues is a lot larger than they are making it out to be... Just be happy you have a Titan... that's all I've got to say.

Why? Apparently I have the same memory issue as at GTX 970 I have .5GB that is very slow.

Waaahh, Whaaa, Waahaa! I got cheated! Look the 980 uses all 4GB! Why that's only $137.50/GB (@$550/980). And the measly 970 only uses 3.5GB's and that's $97.15/GB (@$340/970). Wait what? Maybe that's why it was so much cheaper. I think I'll buy another so I can whine mmmmoooorrrreeee!
Or I could just take the simpler approach and not test the 970 since I don't see any problems with it in games anyway.

It's not about being cheated... It's about the faulty partitioned memory causing micro stuttering. You will eventually deal with it sooner or later and it makes you want to throw away the video card all together.

RainStryke
It's not about being cheated... It's about the faulty partitioned memory causing micro stuttering. You will eventually deal with it sooner or later and it makes you want to throw away the video card all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZ8o27UbUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqJ9ngljoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDD9kimnjCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIg01XdK1Z0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxwo5SbMlrk
Tell me how can these 3 play without stuttering when its over 3.5gb..
 
I know about ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE6p5r1tYE ) but i doubt its only the memory thing that is causing this.. its prob a combo of that and something else. (maybe because he got sli) or maybe the last 512mb is faulty?

afish
You seem to be missing the point. If you bought a 970, you saved $210 or more; did you know you weren't getting the 980? Do you think a 960 will perform as good as a 970?
When Nvidia (or anyone else) builds cards, there are trade-offs and flaws. Some of these trade-offs and flaws are detrimental to performance and when a chip is hamstrung enuf it is put in a cheaper card. Many mfrs do this. What is the diff between a 5960x, 5930k and a 5820k? Probably the quality of mfg; some did not perform as well and became the lesser badged product. That's what I bought, didn't you?

... i am not an wxpert..but i only know that my video driver crash when using more that 3,5 vram... and we have no answer from anybody yet

My new GTX 970 SSC (3475) fails and gives me this error.  What does in mean?  My screen goes black and says nvidia driver stopped responding.  

Scarlet-Tech
Are you overclocking at all?

No, this is stock clocks.  Driver version 344.75

Will do, but I dont see 348.25 on Nvidia website.  Did you mean 347.25?

Updated driver, it still crashes above 3.5gb ram.  Is anyone else having this issue?

blacksapphire08
Lol you guys are blowing this way out of proportion. Go look at gaming benchmarks or run you're own and you'll see that Nvidia is telling the truth. If you're seeing artifacts while playing games chances are it's due to a driver issue, the GPU clocks are not stable (overclocked too high), or something is wrong with the card and it needs to be RMAed. A memory allocation issue would show up as a significant frame rate drop once it hita the limit.

You hit the nail on the head. If you read NVIDIA's full statement (in its ENTIRETY), it makes sense. It sucks, yes, but it makes sense. I love how people are already demanding "refunds" lmao

blacksapphire08
Lol you guys are blowing this way out of proportion. Go look at gaming benchmarks or run you're own and you'll see that Nvidia is telling the truth. If you're seeing artifacts while playing games chances are it's due to a driver issue, the GPU clocks are not stable (overclocked too high), or something is wrong with the card and it needs to be RMAed. A memory allocation issue would show up as a significant frame rate drop once it hita the limit.

My card is running stock, but crashes above 3.5gb.  Does that have to do with memory allocation?  It shouldn't crash should it?  Thanks

Well, is there any point in starting an RMA before nVidia addresses the issue why the 0.5GB module seems to be at DDR3 instead of DDR5? And even in the best case scenario that the RMA is granted, what could possibly the compensation be? Everyone gets to do the a step-up to 980 (regardless of their warranty / step-up eligibility)?