Friday, March 20th 2015
Palit Announces the GeForce GTX 960 JetStream 4 GB
Palit announced the GeForce GTX 960 4 GB JetStream graphics card, its first GTX 960 with double its standard memory amount. The card features Palit's fiery red cooler featured on its GTX 960 Super JetStream graphics card, and achieves its 4 GB memory amount using eight 4 Gb GDDR5 memory chips. The card also offers a factory-overclock, with its core clocked at 1127 MHz, and with a GPU Boost frequency of 1178 MHz. The memory is kept untouched at 7.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective). The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, display outputs include two DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2. The company didn't announce pricing or availability.
29 Comments on Palit Announces the GeForce GTX 960 JetStream 4 GB
4Gb = 0.5 GB
0.5GB x 8 = 4GB
Where's the 8GB version of the 980 and 7GB version of the 970, nVidia? You know? The cards most of us want AND may can afford.
High End
Titan X (so far)
Mid Range
GTX 980 upper mid range
GTX 970 mid range
GTX 960 lower end mid range
Entry Level
GTX 750 Ti upper entry level
GTX 750 mid range entry level
There are three notable holes that Nvidia has yet to fill imo.
1) More entry level Maxwells.
2) A GM206 performing between the previous Kepler 770 and 780 or a cut down GM204 for the mid range market that performs between a 770 and a 780.
3) A GM200 gaming only card with 6 GB VRAM and higher core clocks for ~$700 that will be faster than a Titan X in gaming.
On the 960 the memory bus seems to be a limiting factor more so than the 2GB of vram. Since the bus doesn't change when more vram is added, isn't 4GB serious overkill? Even if you could load bigger textures, the bus wouldn't be able to supply them at a decent frame rate. And that is assuming that the card would be able to process the frames at a decent rate.
In SLI with alternating frame rendering, does this issue go away? I'm thinking it does, since each GPU has twice as long to render a frame the bus will be adequate, and the 4GB of vram will be great if your goal is a more detailed image.