The nomenclature of the leaked card puts it ahead of the GTX 960M while behind the GTX 970M out of which, only the latter has been released.

Since the GPU will be recognized after the 344.77 driver update, it means that the silicon has been more or less finalized, marking the core as a GM204 or a GM107 (in all probability).Ī slide from Nvidia's Maxwell Mobility Press Deck Nvidia Public Domain Nvidia Geforce GTX 965M (probably) Maxwell Mobility spotted amongst Geforce 344.77 driver update NVIDIA has not stated the exact date as to when the custom driver update for the GTX 970 will be released, but less video-intensive games have reportedly been running without performance issues for gamers.The folks over at have spotted an interesting detail in the recent update of Nvidia drivers: the GTX 965M (Mobility Geforce) GPU. Meanwhile, AMD, NVIDIA's only rival in the desktop and laptop GPU market, has reportedly taken advantage of the situation by slashing the price of its current flagship GPU, the R9 290X to a retail price of $299 for the 4 GB variant. The remaining 512 video memory is currently suffering from maximum bandwidth issues. The maximum amount that could be utilized was 3.5 GB, although gamers reported that they started experiencing issues after crossing the 3.2 GB limit. It was initially reported that the company's GeForce GTX 970 graphics card was unable to access all four gigabytes of onboard memory at full speed (4096 megabytes to be exact). The new driver update is expected to fix memory allocation problems on the GeForce GTX 970, which will result in stable gaming performance in games that utilize the entire video buffer of the GTX 970. The company has promised to roll out a solution in the form of a new driver update.

The company overlooked the detail and only addressed the issue when gamers started reporting the problem concerning performance issues on high video memory consumption. However, PC gamers looking to save themselves a few extra dollars ended up costing themselves a lot more when a bug plaguing the GTX 970 GPU resulted in performance dips after their games started utilizing more than 3.2 GB of video memory.Īccording to KitGuru, NVIDIA has admitted that it had published incorrect hardware specifications of the GeForce GTX 970.

The GTX 970 was intended to be NVIDIA's graphics horsepower product without carrying a large price tag like the GTX 980.

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