GTX 960M 2GB vs. 4GB VRAM

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The gtx 960m would not be able to take advantage of the extra vram as the laptop is only able to play the game in med to high settings I think. I would keep the 2 gigs if money is an issue or spend a little more for a laptop with a gtx 970m.

 

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Wont make any difference on a laptop.

 

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velo3100 :

The gtx 960m would not be able to take advantage of the extra vram as the laptop is only able to play the game in med to high settings I think. I would keep the 2 gigs if money is an issue or spend a little more for a laptop with a gtx 970m.

Wouldn't the 4GB version give more stable framerates? Or is the GPU itself really too weak to handle it and it makes no difference to take either 2GB or 4GB?

 

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Hendrik Jan van den Broek :

velo3100 :

The gtx 960m would not be able to take advantage of the extra vram as the laptop is only able to play the game in med to high settings I think. I would keep the 2 gigs if money is an issue or spend a little more for a laptop with a gtx 970m.

Wouldn't the 4GB version give more stable framerates? Or is the GPU itself really too weak to handle it and it makes no difference to take either 2GB or 4GB?

960m isnt the same as the 960 desktop. the 960m is basically the desktop 750 ti - theres a reason there isnt a 4gb 750 ti.

 

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It more to do with the gpu, it is considered as the entry level for gaming by most people.

Hendrik Jan van den Broek :

velo3100 :

The gtx 960m would not be able to take advantage of the extra vram as the laptop is only able to play the game in med to high settings I think. I would keep the 2 gigs if money is an issue or spend a little more for a laptop with a gtx 970m.

Wouldn't the 4GB version give more stable framerates? Or is the GPU itself really too weak to handle it and it makes no difference to take either 2GB or 4GB?

 

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Yes it will. the gtx 970m will beat the gtx 960m by a lot in gta 5. This assumes that the cooling is sufficient.

RobCrezz :

Wont make any difference on a laptop.

 

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velo3100 :

Yes it will. the gtx 970m will beat the gtx 960m by a lot in gta 5. This assumes that the cooling is sufficient.

RobCrezz :

Wont make any difference on a laptop.

Was replying to the OPs question, not your reply.

 

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Sorry about that, your quoted my response so I thought you meant me.

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velo3100 :

Yes it will. the gtx 970m will beat the gtx 960m by a lot in gta 5. This assumes that the cooling is sufficient.

RobCrezz :

Wont make any difference on a laptop.

Was replying to the OPs question, not your reply.

 

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velo3100 :

Sorry about that, your quoted my response so I thought you meant me.

RobCrezz :

velo3100 :

Yes it will. the gtx 970m will beat the gtx 960m by a lot in gta 5. This assumes that the cooling is sufficient.

RobCrezz :

Wont make any difference on a laptop.

Was replying to the OPs question, not your reply.

Er, no i didnt?

 

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velo3100 :

It more to do with the gpu, it is considered as the entry level for gaming by most people.

Hendrik Jan van den Broek :

velo3100 :

The gtx 960m would not be able to take advantage of the extra vram as the laptop is only able to play the game in med to high settings I think. I would keep the 2 gigs if money is an issue or spend a little more for a laptop with a gtx 970m.

Wouldn't the 4GB version give more stable framerates? Or is the GPU itself really too weak to handle it and it makes no difference to take either 2GB or 4GB?

So, just to be sure once more: For this GPU in particular, the GTX 960m, it wouldn't matter whether I would have the 2GB or the 4GB version? Cosidering I'll be gaming at 1080p.

I want to be 100% sure, because if the 4GB gives me better performance after all, I'll take that one.

 

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Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

 

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velo3100 :

Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

Actually, and I know this will sound weird af but my brother bought an MSI GE Series GE70 Apache Pro-681 17.3-Inch laptop and his has the i7 4720HQ with the 2gb variant of the 960M and I bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 that has an i5 6300HQ and the 4gb variant of the 960M and when I opened up nvidia control panel and clicked help> system information, my Dell has 80.16gb/s in the memory bandwith while his has 60gb/s and I really found this to be weird seeing that we're both on the latest drivers and bios for our respective devices

 

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Darrin_1 :

velo3100 :

Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

Actually, and I know this will sound weird af but my brother bought an MSI GE Series GE70 Apache Pro-681 17.3-Inch laptop and his has the i7 4720HQ with the 2gb variant of the 960M and I bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 that has an i5 6300HQ and the 4gb variant of the 960M and when I opened up nvidia control panel and clicked help> system information, my Dell has 80.16gb/s in the memory bandwith while his has 60gb/s and I really found this to be weird seeing that we're both on the latest drivers and bios for our respective devices

i got a lenovo y50-70 with GTX 960m 2 Gb and system info shows 80.1gb/s ! check it out with GPU-Z

and i believe the 80.16 gb/s has to do with 128 bit , NOT the amount of the VRAM

be careful there're two GPU in most of laptops, check the NVIDIA one

 

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iAchilles :

Darrin_1 :

velo3100 :

Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

Actually, and I know this will sound weird af but my brother bought an MSI GE Series GE70 Apache Pro-681 17.3-Inch laptop and his has the i7 4720HQ with the 2gb variant of the 960M and I bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 that has an i5 6300HQ and the 4gb variant of the 960M and when I opened up nvidia control panel and clicked help> system information, my Dell has 80.16gb/s in the memory bandwith while his has 60gb/s and I really found this to be weird seeing that we're both on the latest drivers and bios for our respective devices

i got a lenovo y50-70 with GTX 960m 2 Gb and system info shows 80.1gb/s ! check it out with GPU-Z

and i believe the 80.16 gb/s has to do with 128 bit , NOT the amount of the VRAM

be careful there're two GPU in most of laptops, check the NVIDIA one

I found out why, the gpu memory clock on the MSI is actually 1010MHz slower than my Dell

Check out my blogs on game-debate
http/www.game-debate.com/blog/index.php?b_id=19079&author=darrinram&blog=GTX%20960M%20Overclock%20-%20inadvisable?

 

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velo3100 :

It more to do with the gpu, it is considered as the entry level for gaming by most people.

Hendrik Jan van den Broek :

velo3100 :

The gtx 960m would not be able to take advantage of the extra vram as the laptop is only able to play the game in med to high settings I think. I would keep the 2 gigs if money is an issue or spend a little more for a laptop with a gtx 970m.

Wouldn't the 4GB version give more stable framerates? Or is the GPU itself really too weak to handle it and it makes no difference to take either 2GB or 4GB?

so is it really good idea to go for gtx 960m 2 gb instead of 4 gb knowing the fact that new or upcoming pc games nowadays take more than 2gb even at 1080p?

 

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Darrin_1 :

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Darrin_1 :

velo3100 :

Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

Actually, and I know this will sound weird af but my brother bought an MSI GE Series GE70 Apache Pro-681 17.3-Inch laptop and his has the i7 4720HQ with the 2gb variant of the 960M and I bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 that has an i5 6300HQ and the 4gb variant of the 960M and when I opened up nvidia control panel and clicked help> system information, my Dell has 80.16gb/s in the memory bandwith while his has 60gb/s and I really found this to be weird seeing that we're both on the latest drivers and bios for our respective devices

i got a lenovo y50-70 with GTX 960m 2 Gb and system info shows 80.1gb/s ! check it out with GPU-Z

and i believe the 80.16 gb/s has to do with 128 bit , NOT the amount of the VRAM

be careful there're two GPU in most of laptops, check the NVIDIA one

I found out why, the gpu memory clock on the MSI is actually 1010MHz slower than my Dell

Check out my blogs on game-debate
http/www.game-debate.com/blog/index.php?b_id=19079&author=darrinram&blog=GTX%20960M%20Overclock%20-%20inadvisable?

ok i read ur post there, and as i told before i have a 960m 2gb and when i check by gpuz, it says 80.2 gb/s

so ??????

 

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iAchilles :

Darrin_1 :

iAchilles :

Darrin_1 :

velo3100 :

Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

Actually, and I know this will sound weird af but my brother bought an MSI GE Series GE70 Apache Pro-681 17.3-Inch laptop and his has the i7 4720HQ with the 2gb variant of the 960M and I bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 that has an i5 6300HQ and the 4gb variant of the 960M and when I opened up nvidia control panel and clicked help> system information, my Dell has 80.16gb/s in the memory bandwith while his has 60gb/s and I really found this to be weird seeing that we're both on the latest drivers and bios for our respective devices

i got a lenovo y50-70 with GTX 960m 2 Gb and system info shows 80.1gb/s ! check it out with GPU-Z

and i believe the 80.16 gb/s has to do with 128 bit , NOT the amount of the VRAM

be careful there're two GPU in most of laptops, check the NVIDIA one

I found out why, the gpu memory clock on the MSI is actually 1010MHz slower than my Dell

Check out my blogs on game-debate
http/www.game-debate.com/blog/index.php?b_id=19079&author=darrinram&blog=GTX%20960M%20Overclock%20-%20inadvisable?

ok i read ur post there, and as i told before i have a 960m 2gb and when i check by gpuz, it says 80.2 gb/s

so ??????

GPU-Z is sometimes inaccurate. Check the nVidia control panel and go under the system tab and you should be able to see exactly what you got.

 

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Darrin_1 :

iAchilles :

Darrin_1 :

iAchilles :

Darrin_1 :

velo3100 :

Yes the 2gb is the better choice for you.

Actually, and I know this will sound weird af but my brother bought an MSI GE Series GE70 Apache Pro-681 17.3-Inch laptop and his has the i7 4720HQ with the 2gb variant of the 960M and I bought a Dell Inspiron 7559 that has an i5 6300HQ and the 4gb variant of the 960M and when I opened up nvidia control panel and clicked help> system information, my Dell has 80.16gb/s in the memory bandwith while his has 60gb/s and I really found this to be weird seeing that we're both on the latest drivers and bios for our respective devices

i got a lenovo y50-70 with GTX 960m 2 Gb and system info shows 80.1gb/s ! check it out with GPU-Z

and i believe the 80.16 gb/s has to do with 128 bit , NOT the amount of the VRAM

be careful there're two GPU in most of laptops, check the NVIDIA one

I found out why, the gpu memory clock on the MSI is actually 1010MHz slower than my Dell

Check out my blogs on game-debate
http/www.game-debate.com/blog/index.php?b_id=19079&author=darrinram&blog=GTX%20960M%20Overclock%20-%20inadvisable?

ok i read ur post there, and as i told before i have a 960m 2gb and when i check by gpuz, it says 80.2 gb/s

so ??????

GPU-Z is sometimes inaccurate. Check the nVidia control panel and go under the system tab and you should be able to see exactly what you got.

yeap, even nVidia control panel's system info. says the same as gpuz

 

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The Lenovo Y50-70 has 3840 x 2160 (UHD) resolution. I mean I found one like that. Is 4GB of VRAM better in this case then?

 

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