I have a GTX970 and it performs beautifully, and this news makes no difference to my impression - the card is great bang for its buck, and runs everything I've thrown at it without issue, supersampled, at obscene framerates - I've been using it to play elite in the rift, everything cranked, supersampled, 75Hz... yeah. How it manages memory really doesn't matter currently, and it'll be obsolete on the same timeline as its superior sibling.