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Guru3D.com » News » Return rates less than 5% after GeForce GTX 970 VRAM Exposure

Return rates less than 5% after GeForce GTX 970 VRAM Exposure

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/08/2015 02:28 PM | source: | 115 comment(s)
Return rates less than 5% after GeForce GTX 970 VRAM Exposure

The last couple of weeks have been havoc in regards the mess Nvidia created with the GeForce GTX 970 VRAM mess. Over the past few weeks we have been talking with distributors here in the Benelux, and we are hearing that merely a handful of cards are in a return status with the bigger players. John Peddy research however claims this number is as high as 5 %.

Jon Peddie from JPR stated: "I have heard as many as 5 per cent of the buyers are demanding a refund from the AIB suppliers", a quite from Kit-Guru. Retailers are reporting just 1-2%, with two of the UK's biggest retailers offering refunds for the GPU, where they have until the end of this month to box up their GTX 970 and return it. Keep one thing in mind, not all resellers are actually offering the option to return the card, some of them do .. some don't.

So it seems that in the US the return rates are higher opposed to what we are seeing in the EU, and that number includes the regular RMAs as well. If you like to learn more about the VRAM where 3.6 GB is fast memory and the last 512MB is considered a slow partition alongside some down-scaling specs wise, have a peek here.

Percentage wise the Nvidia's reputation, we are sure, has a higher value damage wise.



Return rates less than 5% after GeForce GTX 970 VRAM Exposure




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sykozis



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#5009968 Posted on: 02/08/2015 07:20 PM
That's so cute. You think taking 2-5 years to develop a game means it was actually coded properly.

Dying Light sounds like a video game adaptation of the movie "I am Legend" ....

I love seeing specs like these that prove my point...
Additional Notes: Laptop versions of graphics cards may work but are NOT officially supported.

If coded properly, there's no reason at all that mobile graphics chips wouldn't be supported.

Calmmo
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#5009971 Posted on: 02/08/2015 07:25 PM
There's hardly any real alternatives available for the same price. There's no way in hell I would pay more to get 290X and 980 is just overpriced.


290 is a great alternative heating solution for the winter tho. No Nvidia solution can beat that.

GeniusPr0
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#5009978 Posted on: 02/08/2015 07:34 PM
That's so cute. You think taking 2-5 years to develop a game means it was actually coded properly.

Dying Light sounds like a video game adaptation of the movie "I am Legend" ....

I love seeing specs like these that prove my point...

If coded properly, there's no reason at all that mobile graphics chips wouldn't be supported.

Facepalm, yes, they should have known that a card with 4GB vRAM was only going to be using 3.5GB vRAM because the driver is the sole controller of how much vRAM can be distributed. Honestly, you're hilarious.

There are a few games that work just fine and have that message. "Codded properly" as you say. Black Flag was the last that I recall. :rolleyes:

In addition, they also work just fine on notebook cards.

Dying Light plays perfectly fine on my GTX 880M SLI, using/allocating up to 4.1GB of vRAM without stutters or frame latency issues. :)

Anyway, back on topic, as mentioned the return rate of the GTX 970 is low because vendors and nVIDIA kept routing service to each other, not wanting to take the dollar hit.

Primey0
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#5009980 Posted on: 02/08/2015 07:34 PM
My card operates exactly as advertised but I'm also not trying to run games maxed at 4K like an idiot....


You don't need to run games maxed at 4K to run into the 970 memory issue

Asgardi
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#5010026 Posted on: 02/08/2015 08:41 PM
Nah...

"Most retailers are not accepting returns or refunding. Especially some small shops. Most of them are not informed by Nvidia or any other manufacturer about a return policy because of the vram fiasco or any upgrade/return program. Nvidia gonna lose sales to AMD really soon."

They were asking from retailers who _did_ accept returns. Fact is that users who have been enjoying the best bang for buck card of their life don't really care. I was thinking about returning to just get a new card with my friend but for what? Maybe to upgrade the cooler on the card by getting different 970 model. Not worth the effort. I think many others who actually do own the card think the same.

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