LurkerLito
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Nope. I was in the market for the GTX980 and a min vRAM of 4GB, but after the reviews and the specs I read the night before it went on sale I switched out the GTX980 I initially had in the cart for a GTX970 to save $200 at 7am. I thought a few extra shaders won't matter and if by some off chance I upgraded to 4K I could just SLI. Now it is clear that really isn't an option. The next card release I won't want anything less than 6GB that all runs at full speed. I don't want to have to read tech specs to find out that a manufacturer claiming 4GB of RAM is partitioned into fast and slow RAM. You claim 4GB all 4GB better run at the exact same speed. If you have fast and slow ram, then amount of ram on that card is equal ONLY to the max size of the fastest available. The rest I don't consider usable regardless of any claims that it's present on the board.To the 970 owners out there, If Nvidia would NOT have mislead/lied/cheated the specs of the card and just sold it as a GTX970 with 3.5GB of RAM for $330, would you still have bought it/considered it when compared to the current competition at that time?