If you're like me, you've been stewing for the last 8 years over nVidia short changing their GTX 970 customers on VRAM. Or, maybe you just wanted to see a cool softmodding project that doesn't make any real financial sense, but can still turn a low power workstation card into a halfdecent gaming GPU? Either way, in this video I tried to mod the Quadro M4000 at a BIOS level in order to reach GTX 970 clock speeds.

Maxwell II BIOS Tweaker (not Editor, as I said in the video):
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/...

Modified version of nvflash: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/...

Guides:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/s...
https://www.overclock.net/threads/att...
https://www.pizzaundervolt.com/maxwel...

00:00 Making my own 8GB GTX 970
00:37 Background: History of the nVidia GTX 970
01:47 The Quadro M4000
03:10 Disclaimer: don't do what I did
03:47 Adventures in BIOS Modding
06:56 Gaming Benchmarks
06:59 Benchmarks: God of War 1920x1080 Original, FSR
07:51 Benchmarks: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade 1920x1080 High
08:33 Benchmarks: Elden Ring 1920x1080 Maximum, Medium
09:13 Benchmarks: Forza Horizon 5 1920x1080 High, FSR
09:53 Benchmarks: Halo Infinite 1920x1080 Low
10:59 Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077 1920x1080 Medium, FSR
11:41 Benchmarks: Rainbow Six Extraction 1920x1080 High, 50% Scaling
12:23 Benchmarks: Splitgate 1920x1080 Epic
13:00 Benchmarks: Call of Duty Vanguard 1920x1080 Low, FSR
13:50 Benchmarks: Fortnite 1920x1080 Competitive
14:24 Benchmarks: Apex Legends 1920x1080 Low
14:54 Benchmarks: Call of Duty Warzone 1920x1080 Low, 67% Scaling
15:32 Benchmarks: Fire Strike & Time Spy
15:44 Comparison chart: M4000 Stock vs. Modded
16:53 Comparison chart: M4000 Modded vs. MSI GTX 970
16:17 Conclusion: Did I REALLY make an 8GB GTX 970?

S P E C S
This GPU was tested on what I think is a good example of a midrange system in 2022. Specs are as follows:

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