GTX960 in January 2015

[Fassou]

Rumors do not stop in this great network, and several sources take for granted the launch of the new GTX960 in this new month and year that begin. Probably at the CES in Las Vegas on the 6th.

The rumors that dare with more concrete affirmations, place the performance at the level of a GTX770, for the equivalent of 180€, and a TDP lower than 150W (that of the GTX970 <:().

Salu2!

[amd125]

Well it could be my next graphic card, I don't want to spend more than 200€ and it looks good. ;D

Edit… I read that it will have 2 Gigabytes of RAM... Spread the word :facepalm:

[wwwendigo]

@Fassou:

Rumors do not stop in this great network, and several sources give for sure the launch of the new GTX960 in this new month and year that begin. Probably at CES in Las Vegas on the 6th.

The rumors that dare with more concrete affirmations, place the performance at the level of a GTX770, for the equivalent of 180€, and a TDP lower than 150W (that of the GTX970 <:().

Salu2!

There are many rumors and each one more contradictory, the funniest thing is to see how they are taken as "valid" the latest without delivering any kind of reliability….:ugly:

On the last said, it would be the launch on January 22, 2015, and already the most murky part and that personally I do not believe (because it is a matter of faith, not of proving anything by the cited sources):

Graphics card of 128 bits and 2 GB of VRAM with a GM206.

While I believe that it exists and is going to come out now a GM206, I do not believe that, at least the "full" GM206, is a chip that connects to a bus of 128 bits and uses only 2 GB of GDDR5 6 Gbps as filtered.

That would be more credible for something like a GTX 950, a step forward from the previous GTX 750 ti, with new chip or not (GM107/207), or a cut version of the GM206. But not for a chip that, by positioning, is oriented to the mid to mid-high range as the GTX x60 series usually are).

From my point of view, it would be more feasible a use of bus of 192 bits (contradicting both rumors, including the initial one that talked about a prototype of "GTX 960" using 256 bits and 4 GB of VRAM, which could be some product type "GTX 960 Ti" or "GTX 960 OEM" using GM204 discarded for the GTX 970) and 3 GB of VRAM, since it unites and weighs better the performance to the step that the GTX 960 would represent within the line of Geforce graphics.

This is, the logical and normal thing is to expect that the GTX 960 is inferior to the GTX 970, but not by an abyssal difference, this has never been so, but if you go from a bus of 256 bits with memos of 7 Gbps and 64 ROPs, to a bus of 128 bits and memos of 6 Gbps and 32 ROPs, it is going to be inevitable that the performance is VERY different.

And it is not for nothing, but the GTX 960 at least has to beat the GTX 760 to make sense, not to equal, but to beat. And that implies basically to be in the order of the performance of the GTX 770 or to surpass it by something. With a bus of 192 bits (or 256 bits, it will not be certainly by the cost itself of the bus that this cannot be done in a mid range, where there are already chips with this type of bus), there would be no problem. With a bus of 128 bits, YES.

Given that the GTX 970 takes out approximately 1/3 of extra performance from a GTX 770, in the same way that the GTX 980 takes out approximately 1/2, to cap both the chip would seriously compromise that it can rival even with the GTX 770, or that it shows some goodness outside of the energy against the GTX 760.

It is that by power, it could even be below the GTX 760 if they get distracted, if that bus is used, no matter how much it is improved in ROPs and other improvements of Maxwell 2.0 that can make the chip more efficient than what has been seen with the GM107 and the GTX 750 Ti (which perform about 55% of the performance of a GTX 770).

Although you put more GPCs in the chip, the bus itself would be a great limiting factor given that the bandwidth vs the GM204 would be less than half. And Maxwell is efficient, but I do not think that much.

[Fassou]

For those interested in something below a GTX970, it seems that they will have a good saga in the making, with at least two versions of the GTX960, which will probably be 3, according to other rumors from the usual suspects.

They now place the normal GTX960, at the "good" price of $200 USD, but with a slightly higher performance than a GTX760, and its two probable older sisters, with the suffix "Ti", too close in price to the GTX970, which seems to continue to be the object of desire, while we wait for the little monster they are cooking up at AMD.

Salu2!

[fjavi]

You can already see some 960s, although it seems that 2 or 3 models are going to come out, each one more powerful. This model doesn't convince me unless it comes out at 180€ or less, it should be called 950Ti. Exclusive: MSI GeForce GTX 960 GAMING 2G and GTX 960 100 MILLION Edition pictured | VideoCardz.com 128 bits and 2GB seems scarce to me, although it's not too powerful, I don't think that if they allow SLI they will be very short of memory, especially with games like Assassind Unity or Whast dogs. Assuming that another will have a minimum of 3Gb. Here's the chip. Exclusive: NVIDIA Maxwell GM206 pictured | VideoCardz.com That or they put it cheap or it's going to be a piece of junk, which will be very far from a 970, a lot of stinginess on the part of Nvidia. http://videocardz.com/54263/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-specifications-and-performance-leaked regards