both of those have 256bit wide bus tho
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Gigabyte GTX 960 OC 2 GB
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also, the 960 is meant to be a budget, able VGA card for playing most games at 1080p without problems like the 760, but at a much more lowered consumption & heat generation. I mean, having ~5% overall gain over the 760 means it's a worthy card for it's price. New builds will see the 960 as a recommended card, instead of the 760. 2 PWM fans on a 960 is suffice to keep it's operating temps low when gaming, so I dun see utilizing more than 2 is gonna make it run even cooler for an already cool-running chip.
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As far as i am concerned, GTX 960 ain't faster than GTX 760. If it does not beat GTX 760 in Crysis 3, it ain't faster for me (talking about OEM version).
So many games here were tested with 4X AA - this gives the GTX 960 a huge advantage over GTX 760, as both cards feature 32 ROPS, but the core clock on GTX 960 is significantly faster, therefore the AA processing power of GTX 960 is supreme.
I for one, play games without AA, and as an owner of GTX 760 could bet that if AA was to be disabled, GTX 760 should be close or ahead in those cases.
Just how on earth does GTX 960 manage to be this fast with that low memory bandwidth is a shocker...
Can anybody confirm my AA speculations???
So many games here were tested with 4X AA - this gives the GTX 960 a huge advantage over GTX 760, as both cards feature 32 ROPS, but the core clock on GTX 960 is significantly faster, therefore the AA processing power of GTX 960 is supreme.
I for one, play games without AA, and as an owner of GTX 760 could bet that if AA was to be disabled, GTX 760 should be close or ahead in those cases.
Just how on earth does GTX 960 manage to be this fast with that low memory bandwidth is a shocker...
Can anybody confirm my AA speculations???
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the 960's Maxwell chip has 1MB L2 cache, along with trick texture & delta colour compression technology to reduce overhead while 760's Kepler only has roughly 512KB L2 cache, so a beefier cache usually compensates other areas where the card is lacking like for example it's tiny 128-bit bus width. This in turn gives it a slight edge over it's older brother.