Thursday, January 15th 2015
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Specs Confirmed
Here's what NVIDIA's upcoming performance-segment GPU, the GeForce GTX 960, could look like under the hood. Key slides from its press-deck were leaked to the web, revealing its specs. To begin with, the card is based on NVIDIA's 28 nm GM206 silicon. It packs 1,024 CUDA cores based on the "Maxwell" architecture, 64 TMUs, and possibly 32 ROPs, despite its 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, which holds on to 2 GB of memory. The bus may seem narrow, but NVIDIA is using a lossless texture compression tech, that will effectively improve bandwidth utilization.
The core is clocked at 1127 MHz, with 1178 MHz GPU Boost, and the memory at 7.00 GHz (112 GB/s real bandwidth). Counting its texture compression mojo, NVIDIA is beginning to mention an "effective bandwidth" figure of 9.3 GHz. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, the chip's TDP is rated at just 120W. Display outputs will include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2. In its slides, NVIDIA claims that the card will be an "overclocker's dream" in its segment, and will offer close to double the performance over the GTX 660. NVIDIA will launch the GTX 960 on the 22nd of January, 2015.
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The core is clocked at 1127 MHz, with 1178 MHz GPU Boost, and the memory at 7.00 GHz (112 GB/s real bandwidth). Counting its texture compression mojo, NVIDIA is beginning to mention an "effective bandwidth" figure of 9.3 GHz. The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, the chip's TDP is rated at just 120W. Display outputs will include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2. In its slides, NVIDIA claims that the card will be an "overclocker's dream" in its segment, and will offer close to double the performance over the GTX 660. NVIDIA will launch the GTX 960 on the 22nd of January, 2015.
119 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Specs Confirmed
Judging by the graphs here, looks like about 60% more performance.
According to TPU, that will put the GTX 960 on 64% here
tpucdn.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_980_G1_Gaming/images/perfrel_1920.gif
My guess? it will be on 60-61% relative to this graph, at about GTX 770 performance
Any word about video decoding options, tegra x1 has full h265/vp9 deocoding. Really hope this has too.
Seems reasonable for those looking for a cheap option into 1080p gaming without spending money on fancy PSU's.
The point of this card is to make its competition in the similar price range irrelevant, in both performance and power consumption.
As always, the performance graphs from the manufacturer is the most obscure and pointless arrangement, so wait for reviews.
I've been trying to decide between the GTX 970 and the upcoming GTX 960. The ~$200 price point of the GTX 960 is attractive but the prowess of the GTX 970 is also attractive as well as its current availability.
The introduction of hardware HEVC / H.265 and VP9 decoder support on the GTX 960 would be a very nice addition though. It could make a hard decision very easy.
For the record I have not done any testing on these cards, so I have no idea about actual numbers.
No card configuration can do that with current games. :rolleyes:Performance in what? Overclock or gaming performance?
I guess it is overclock.
Because if it is gaming performance, an increase in performance compared to the ancient GTX 660 is more than expected, otherwise what is point in buying it? It should be faster than the GTX 760 first, to make any sense. If it will match or outperforms the GTX 770, and I hope it outperforms it (in such case the difference will not be large), it will be good.
But there other improvements to care more about, people seems to care only about performance and forget other things. :shadedshu:
At $150, it is a true 2015 card. Many reasons to buy it. Only mistake the name. It should have been called 950Ti.
A $200 price is just hi for a 128bit card in 2015, even with the better efficiency in memory.
More than $200, lets say $250, and it is a "no go".
As I said, this is 950Ti in my opinion, NOT 960. Based on specs and the fact that this is not 2012. OK Nvidia calls it 960 to justify a higher price, possibly that $200, but in my opinion those specs scream 950Ti.
And although it might look as a good option today for 1080p, a couple more AAA games in 2015 that ask for higher bandwidth and more memory, will sent many people who will buy this card today, to start searching for a better card in 6 months from now. I guess that 128bit also kills any ideas about SLI, IF this card supports SLI.
Honestly going to be a great card for those on a budget, like the single 6 pin connector as that opens up the possibility of just something on the small side of PSU's and gives a very wide range of options for PSU.Probably would get an upgrade of course but that would depend on how much your hoping for because I don't think its going to be night and day but more of a decent improvement card to card. But this is just early speculation of course as its guaranteed to be better but just how much has yet to be seen.