Palit Announces the GeForce GTX 960 JetStream 4 GB

[btarunr]

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.



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[silapakorn]

Looks like MSI gaming series.

 

[Caring1]

achieves its 4 GB memory amount using eight 4 Gb GDDR5 memory chips.

My math must be wrong, it's been a while since I was at school ...

 

[RCoon]

My math must be wrong, it's been a while since I was at school ...

Gb, not GB. Eight Gigabits in a Gigabyte.

4Gb = 0.5 GB
0.5GB x 8 = 4GB

 

[Caring1]

Why didn't they say so

 

[DeSanta]

Nice, lower tier card with 0.5GB more than higher GTX 970, makes sense

Looks like MSI gaming series.

Great and all, but I'd still pick Palit over MSI any day. Too bad Palit doesn't sell their Jetsreams in the US.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Great.

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.

 

[Darksword]

Great.

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.

They want you to spend $1,000.00 for an overpriced Titan X instead.

 

[m6tzg6r]

Nice, lower tier card with 0.5GB more than higher GTX 970, makes sense

HAHAHAHA True story.

 

[Primey_]

If any game requires near 4GB of vram usage then it's probably running extremely high settings which the 960 won't perform well in. What's the point of high vram on low end gpus

Nice, lower tier card with 0.5GB more than higher GTX 970, makes sense

Stop beating a dead horse

 

[rtwjunkie]

If any game requires near 4GB of vram usage then it's probably running extremely high settings which the 960 won't perform well in. What's the point of high vram on low end gpus



Stop beating a dead horse

Well, it's not a lower-tier card. It's a mid-tier, just like the 760 and 660 were that it replaces. And per the reviews by W1zzard, it beats them both in every test, is right behind the 770 in most tests, even beating it a couple times. a few games it was even within spitting distance of the 780. Not bad at all for a mid-tier. 4GB can easily be used in games wihich require alot of VRAM for textures. A few I can think that I have are Watch Dogs, Sleeping Dogs, and heavily modded FNV and Skyrim.

 

[KarymidoN]

After buyng an GTX 970 i will never trust in 4GB from nVidia...

 

[rtwjunkie]

After buyng an GTX 970 i will never trust in 4GB from nVidia...

It's a completely different chipset from the 980/970. The 970 was crippled memory-wise because of it being a cut down 980. The 960 is a different maxwell chip designed from the ground up.

 

[KarymidoN]

It's a completely different chipset from the 980/970. The 970 was crippled memory-wise because of it being a cut down 980. The 960 is a different maxwell chip designed from the ground up.

nVidia lie to me, in ROPS, l2 Cache and memory... my next GPU = 100% AMD.

 

[rtwjunkie]

nVidia lie to me, in ROPS, l2 Cache and memory... my next GPU = 100% AMD.

But, did that change the performance of your card? If it did, then exchange it. No reason to be unhappy if you feel the stats changed the performance overnight.

 

[KarymidoN]

But, did that change the performance of your card? If it did, then exchange it. No reason to be unhappy if you feel the stats changed the performance overnight.

send away my plans to SLI GTX 970 for 4K Gaming... 3,5gb memory for 4k gaming, even with SLI is noth enough...

 

[64K]

imo the Maxwells are ranked in terms of gaming right now

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.

 

[Primey_]

send away my plans to SLI GTX 970 for 4K Gaming... 3,5gb memory for 4k gaming, even with SLI is noth enough...

Neither is 4GB so why are you complaining?

 

[KarymidoN]

Neither is 4GB so why are you complaining?

nVidia fanboy detected? 4GB for the games i wanna play is enough to 4k with some decent fps, but thanks to nVidia i have my GTX 970 3,5GB ready to play in 1080p till i buy my R9 390X and play in my 4K TV...

 

[ShiBDiB]

Neither is 4GB so why are you complaining?

Don't feed the troll

 

[RichF]

Stop beating a dead horse

Right, because the 970 isn't still being sold right now.

 

[RichF]

But, did that change the performance of your card? If it did, then exchange it. No reason to be unhappy if you feel the stats changed the performance overnight.

Fallacy of omission.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Fallacy of omission.

If the spec change makes him unhappy he should get something else. Trolling a product announcement isn't going to solve anything, and life is too short to continue to use a product that makes someone unhappy.

 

[rruff]

Can somebody smart answer this?

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.

 

[RCoon]

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.

See this article. Though one thing that research outlines is that memory bandwidth is in line with GPU usage. At 1080p and below it's less of a problem.

4GB for the games i wanna play is enough to 4k with some decent fps

No, no it's not. No single GPU setup is capable of putting out 4K at decent FPS with 4GB. Even 980 SLI struggles to put out ~45 FPS. If you're buying a single 970 4GB for 4K gaming, you're doing it wrong.