After the revelation of the GTX 970 Memory Issue, is it stupid to go for 1440p with one GTX 970?

[dryl77]

Hi, everyone. I have an EVGA GTX 970 FTW in a well-managed Node 304 case. No SLI opportunity here. I have an 2560X1080 ultra widescreen display that I love to play games on and the card's been a beast on everything at maxed out ultra with +60 fps (including Shadow Of Mordor, Dying Light, Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs) with mili-second dips when these games try to access 4 gbs of ram - which happens very rarely, especially when the game is about to present a pre-rendered action sequence or something.

Yet, I have the opportunity to trade my monitor for my friend's ASUS 1440p 27 inch monitor. Now, within the light of everything that came out about GTX 970 regarding the memory issue (I also checked mine, and my card only uses 3.5 gb of ram), would it even be worth it to go for 1440p with one GTX 970 and get stutters, freezes, below 30 fps in games that I can now run at +60 fps and enjoy without a hassle? Or am I exaggerating the problem? How would the 1440p experience be with my EVGA GTX 970 FTW?

Thanks for your answers, everyone!

PS I play all games, from RPG to FPS to strategy

 

[TechyInAZ]

1440 should be fine..

 

[pasow]

you wont see much change in your frame rate. the GTX 970 is fast even at 1440p. remember those benchmarks everyone posted when it came out are on the same hardware your using now. its not like Nvidia went in and disabled things after the fact.

 

[RommelKorp]

It will be fine, for a while...think about it if you already are experiencing the memory issues without 1440p, you will experience even more with that resolution, the fact is that the card in theory should be capable of run at 1440p without any difficulty, take a look at the horrible ports to PC that eventually will require more than your 3.5gb.

Short Story, don´t get the 1440p monitor, the chances of getting more stutter or issues will increase, be patient and invest that money on something else, llke more RAM or an SSD, i see that you are playing rts too, tell us your specs please.

And in the near future, with enough luck the next generation of Nvidia cards will fully support 4k resolutions without the limitations on the one card option, because if you want stable fps at that resolution you better buy an SLI (this is only for motivating you that this is not the right time to upgrade resolution even further.

And i have to remark that like other persons will tell you, the 3.5gb should be enough for 1440p IN THEORY

Check this link for more info http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/79925-nvidia-explains-geforce-gtx-970s-memory-problems/