Looks like it is semi official now. The base GTX 960 model will have a 128bit bus, and 2GB of vram.
http://www.techpowerup.com/208618/msi-geforce-gtx-960-graphics-cards-leaked.html
I haven't seen any mention of the shader count, but if you assume that Nvidia wants to slot this in between the 760 and 770, then that would be ~50% of the 980... or 1024. That matches up with the memory bandwidth also being cut in half relative to the 980. So there won't be any weird bottlenecks due to the bus and ram quantity, unless you also believe that the 980 suffers from bottlenecks. Note the 960 is spec'd with similar fast ram (7Ghz) also.
A retail price of just over $200 makes sense IMO. It will compete with the R9 280 and 285 on performance and price, while drawing much less power.
Most likely a Ti model and possibly even a 3rd 960 will debut in a short time, with one of them being a cut down GM204. At least the guy who posted the chart below seems to think so.
http://techgadgetnews.com/2014/12/3...nts-upto-1536-cuda-cores-benchmarks-revealed/
The "benchmarks" are just a guess, but probably pretty close.
With the base 960 being this low end, that would put it at ~70% faster than a 750 Ti. Still a substantial gap. I've seen no solid rumors about a 950 or 950 Ti, but I think Nvidia needs at least one and maybe two 9 series cards to populate that space. Probably a few months off though.
http://www.techpowerup.com/208618/msi-geforce-gtx-960-graphics-cards-leaked.html
I haven't seen any mention of the shader count, but if you assume that Nvidia wants to slot this in between the 760 and 770, then that would be ~50% of the 980... or 1024. That matches up with the memory bandwidth also being cut in half relative to the 980. So there won't be any weird bottlenecks due to the bus and ram quantity, unless you also believe that the 980 suffers from bottlenecks. Note the 960 is spec'd with similar fast ram (7Ghz) also.
A retail price of just over $200 makes sense IMO. It will compete with the R9 280 and 285 on performance and price, while drawing much less power.
Most likely a Ti model and possibly even a 3rd 960 will debut in a short time, with one of them being a cut down GM204. At least the guy who posted the chart below seems to think so.
http://techgadgetnews.com/2014/12/3...nts-upto-1536-cuda-cores-benchmarks-revealed/
The "benchmarks" are just a guess, but probably pretty close.
With the base 960 being this low end, that would put it at ~70% faster than a 750 Ti. Still a substantial gap. I've seen no solid rumors about a 950 or 950 Ti, but I think Nvidia needs at least one and maybe two 9 series cards to populate that space. Probably a few months off though.
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