sorry but the 970 has 4gb of vram weather you like it or not, 3.5gb is apparently running faster and .5gb is running slower (have you got any evidence to back this claim up or is it just AMD trash talking because their GPU's are much less efficient), i am yet to see any game struggle to run on a GPU with less than 2gb vram yet quite a few of you are trying to push the idea that because a game "watch dogs" has a texture setting in the games options which unless you knew where to look you couldn't see any difference between 2gb and 3gb modes newer games are requiring more vram and that simply is a load of old tripe, no new game requires more than 2gb vram and even running at 4k with medium settings a GTX 690 still plays games at a very respectful 40 fps (crysis 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vunGj_JIVIY).
Edit: when i was talking about "watch dogs" 2/3gb vram texture setting i was talking about the graphics in the game not the option to change the setting.
Current PC build:
Asus Z97I-Plus, i5 4790K @ 4.6ghz, EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 1377/1853/124%, Corsair Vengence Pro 2400mhz 2x 8192mb, Corsair RM850, Corsair H80i, 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD, 750GB Seagate Momentus XT SSHD, 320GB Weston Digital HDD, Corsair 230T, Corsair K50 Raptor, HP XQ500AA mouse, Windows 10 Pro 64bit. iiyama Pro Lite G2773HS 120Hz 1Ms G2G gaming monitor.
