AMD in the beginnig of the GCN era had massive driver issues (the transition to the new architecture was simply to huge), maybe i had some bad tune regarding this matter. But in overall give it and take it the past few years AMD was on a strong spot rarely seen before, so it was rather hard praising Nvidia. AMD sometimes is creating issues with older games so both sides got pros and cons. Nvidia in general got lesser ethical value but generally the head in performance. Nobody is perfect but AMD surely made higher progress the past few years but currently is slow on catching up with next gen, they simply was waiting to long and to much rebrands (but Nvidia is barely better on rebrands).
Ultimately i just want the best product for my needs and in term someone want to play the game of betrayal with me i like to argue, it doesnt matter whoever is the guilty spot. But surely Nvidia is more likely to appear on my list of weird things... just nature of stuff and not a blade fence.
Nothing changes, i will smash the 970 into my case (already ordered, cant change it), probably with hard force and then use games modded to the edge and as long as it doesnt use more than 3.5 GB i may have a great performer and may be happy... the almighty "if" is of high value because those modded games may leech RAM like mad and it was the reason for upgrading, not the sheer GPU performance which is a nice bonus but not the reason for upgrading. We will see if it can handle it, especially my alltime chield of sorrow known as "modded to the very edge Skyrim". Almost no limit on how much VRAM it may use... because the VRAM is the only ressource able to go past the 32 bit limit on non server environments. Even when i clearly set the max VRAM to 2 GB the game is overstepping the value and is killing itself, its just to hungry and cant be limited anymore because primary instances is at the very edge already, there is no work around other than huge VRAM, game is plagued by RAM management issues.
Fact is, Radeon stuff is supreme on RAM management for long time already and it seems Nvidia cares less and is just boasting with the efficiency of the new architecture while AMD was not releasing a new architecture for several years already. Choice is hard because i need efficiency and RAM management at once.