GTX 960 rumors

64K · Jan 13, 2015

Some more possible leaks on the GTX 960

http://videocardz.com/54263/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-specifications-and-performance-leaked

rruff · Jan 13, 2015

More.
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-...ealed-performs-slightly-faster-radeon-r9-280/

rruff · Jan 15, 2015

Launching the 22nd: http://videocardz.com/54329/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-confirmed-specifications-and-launch-date

Nordic · Jan 15, 2015

960 should clock the same as 970/980 cards. They are already reaching 1500mhz pretty easy before running into ideas severe voltage limitations.

rruff · Jan 15, 2015

Buy my calculations, scaling at 1.6x GTX 660 would put it ahead of a GTX 770. I don't think that will be the case unless the 960 was OC and the 660 wasn't.

mroofie · Jan 15, 2015

rruff said:
Buy my calculations, scaling at 1.6x GTX 660 would put it ahead of a GTX 770. I don't think that will be the case unless the 960 was OC and the 660 wasn't.

from what im seeing this could reach gtx 780 performance and beyond

rruff · Jan 15, 2015

"To infinity, and..."?

Seems unlikely it could match a 770 with such a weak bus and only 1024 shaders, but I'm far from an expert in such things.

BUCK NASTY · Jan 15, 2015

james888 said:
960 should clock the same as 970/980 cards. They are already reaching 1500mhz pretty easy before running into ideas severe voltage limitations.

And if F@H scales the same per shading unit, then we should see approx 175K PPD at max clocks. The 128 bit memory limitation should not affect F@H.

Nordic · Jan 15, 2015

BUCK NASTY said:
And if F@H scales the same per shading unit, then we should see approx 175K PPD at max clocks. The 128 bit memory limitation should not affect F@H.

Sounds like better ppd/$ than a 750ti with the same ppd/watt. Sounds like you could easily put 6 in a system with extenders with a reasonably sized psu too..

rruff · Jan 16, 2015

Graphs from sweclockers. They note that the 1228 Ghz base clock is greater than the Nvidia reference spec, but still pretty impressive IMO. Beats a R9 280x at 1440p.

rtwjunkie · Jan 16, 2015

Well, it beats a 760, which is all it needed to do to replace the 760 in their lineup.

rruff · Jan 18, 2015

At least the $200 retail price is looking more solid. That is for an Asus Strix too, which is a premium product.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-msrp-200/

hat · Jan 18, 2015

Why are a lot of people trashing the 960 saying it's junk? It seems to be a love/hate relationship with this thing.

rruff · Jan 18, 2015

hat said:
Why are a lot of people trashing the 960 saying it's junk? It seems to be a love/hate relationship with this thing.

Those are people who are fixated on the 128bit bus and 2GB of ram and don't understand how video cards work. It's like a car fan who is obsessed with cubic inches and doesn't understand how a small engine with a supercharger can perform better.

All that matters is how it performs in games, and we'll have to wait a few days to see how that goes. I think it will do fine.... right around R9 285 and GTX 770 performance, and if you can buy one for $200 or less, that isn't bad at all.

hat · Jan 18, 2015

I had a Radeon 5870 for the longest time. That had a 256-bit bus. Now my 660 ti does more with less power, with a 192-bit bus. The 960 looks like it will outdo my 660ti, again with less power and a smaller bus.
GDDR5 is so fast, and getting faster, maybe they can use that raw speed there to cut back on the bus (and thusly cost and power draw, etc) and put out a better performing card for less.

xorbe · Jan 18, 2015

rruff said:
Those are people who are fixated on the 128bit bus and 2GB of ram and don't understand how video cards work.

Quoting for quoting later.

64K · Jan 20, 2015

They've got some benches up for the GTX 960 here

http://videocardz.com/54401/nvidia-launches-geforce-gtx-960

Xzibit · Jan 20, 2015

64K said:
They've got some benches up for the GTX 960 here

http://videocardz.com/54401/nvidia-launches-geforce-gtx-960

Those are suppose to be non reference OC results. Looks like its the MSI 960 by the clock comparisons. The reference is going to be equal to 760. Looking more like a side-grade with newer arch and feature set and lower bus. Pricing will be key because the other cards it competes with are able to give 1440p playability in some games for $200-$250 with larger buffer.

Tonduluboy · Jan 20, 2015

Well i just saw a few online stores selling this gtx 960 in my country:
Gigabyte : $290
Zotac : $250

Memory
Memory Size: 2048 MB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Bus: 128 bit
Bandwidth: 112 GB/s

Clock Speeds (zotax)
GPU Clock:1177 MHz (+4%)
Boost Clock:1240 MHz (+5%)
Memory Clock:7012 MHz effective

The price is ridunkcolous!@#!$%^ while cheapest 970 is only $320

rruff · Jan 21, 2015

64K said:
They've got some benches up for the GTX 960 here

Those results look pretty good... at least R9 285 level on average. But this one doesn't look so hot.

DarkOCean · Jan 21, 2015

rruff said:
Those results look pretty good... at least R9 285 level on average. But this one doesn't look so hot.

Judging by that I'm guessing $150-$160 would be a fair price for this card, it's the low end gpu of the 9xx generation afterall.

Blue-Knight · Jan 21, 2015

DarkOCean said:
Judging by that I'm guessing $150-$160 would be a fair price for this card, it's the low end gpu of the 9xx generation afterall.

It is an entry level card, just like the GTX 980.

xfia · Jan 21, 2015

guessing that's a typo

xorbe · Jan 21, 2015

rruff said:
Those results look pretty good... at least R9 285 level on average. But this one doesn't look so hot.

Wait, on one hand, you give us heat for bagging on the 128-bit mem bus, then you say 100 fps doesn't look so hot?

Just giving you a hard time haha

rruff · Jan 21, 2015

xorbe said:
Wait, on one hand, you give us heat for bagging on the 128-bit mem bus, then you say 100 fps doesn't look so hot? Just giving you a hard time haha

My GTX 750 should do at least 50fps in that test. Why would anyone need more?

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