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GTX 960 specs officially announced, 2.3Tflops, 2GB, 128-bit

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Videocardz has received official specifications (somewhat) for Nvidia's upcoming mid-range entry to the Maxwell line.

Card is based on 28nm GM206 processor

1024 CUDA cores
64 TMUs (TBD)
32 ROPs (TBD)
2GB GDDR5
Core clock 1127MHz/1178MHz boost
Memory clock 7GHz (112 GB/s real bandwidth)
Something, something "effective bandwidth 9.3 GHz"
6-pin power, 120W

Nvidia's pimping this as 2x the GTX 660, which is of interest to me and anyone else apart of GTX660-gaf

Can't help but wish it was 3GB/192-bit or more, but we'll see what the reviews bring and the rumored 960ti can offer.

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That 2gb and the 128bit interface is not good at all, should have been 3gb and 192bit at least - can't wait to see the Ti version.
 
I wish they'd just get on to the next wave (pascal I think?) and step their game up a bit. I've got money sitting around for a new card but I'm just not seeing a real reason to upgrade so far, RAM is always lower than expected. I'm rocking a slowly aging MSI 580 LE with 3Gb and 4 series later I expected a slightly larger increase by now. I gotta say their pricing with the 970 was a damn good move, and that's pretty much the card I'd suggest to anyone right now, but other than that I'm underwhelmed in general.

Hopefully we get Pascal by the end of this year.
 
Lol nVidia, you could make a perfect PS4 killer but you decided to limit it by giving 2 GB of VRAM and crazy low memory bandwidth. This bandwidth is even slower that the one found in Geforce 560! (yes, I realize that it's not everything and NVidia uses compression)
 
bathsalts said:
fuck off nvidia, wheres the 980ti
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There probably won't be one, as there wasn't with 680.

Big Maxwell closer to the end of the year might see a "1080ti".


Henrar said:
Lol nVidia, you could make a perfect PS4 killer but you decided to limit it by giving 2 GB of VRAM and crazy low memory bandwidth. This bandwidth is even slower that the one found in Geforce 560! (yes, I realize that it's not everything and NVidia uses compression)
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It's going to be a lot quicker than 560, or even 660, and there will probably be a 4gb variant coming out via non-reference designs.

There's also rumors of a 960Ti which would have 4GB.
 
I cannot imagine that this card is in any sense balanced.
It can play all nextgen games on High/Very High 1080p 30, but then has to turn textures down to medium or low.

So unintuitive and obvious why they release cards like this...
 
From what I've read there'll be 4GB models as well. Not sure if they'll be available at launch or down the line though.

But honestly 2GB for this card is fine because with a card like this you're probably not gonna be running games on Ultra with only one of these and 2GB should be fine for Medium to High settings. If you get two to SLI them to run games in Ultra then you'll have 4GB total so it' becomes a non-issue.
 
Videocardz should be on GAF's banned list

While I’m still waiting for the fax from Jen-Hsun, I had to came up with a placeholders for this post, Thus, I made my own slides, which are identical to what you’re going to see in just 7 days.
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Read the article and check their sources guys.
 
Man, 2 GB should automatically make this a pass for anyone that plans on buying new stuff outside the indie sphere. This card is the opposite of future proof.
 
Boss★Moogle;147656303 said:
If you get two to SLI them to run games in Ultra then you'll have 4GB total so it' becomes a non-issue.
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That's not how sli/crossfire works, the memory is mirrored so with 2 cards and 2gb each you still only get 2gb of memory total.
 
Boss★Moogle;147656303 said:
From what I've read there'll be 4GB models as well. Not sure if they'll be available at launch or down the line though.

But honestly 2GB for this card is fine because with a card like this you're probably not gonna be running games on Ultra with only one of these and 2GB should be fine for Medium to High settings. If you get two to SLI them to run games in Ultra then you'll have 4GB total so it' becomes a non-issue.
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At that point you just get a 970, which is the whole deal about giving this card only 2GB.
 
So If I was gonna upgrade from my 2GB 760 sometime around the end of 2015, what would the market for mid cards look like at that point?
 
2GB on a 128 bit bus just doesn't cut it anymore

Boss★Moogle;147656303 said:
If you get two to SLI them to run games in Ultra then you'll have 4GB total so it' becomes a non-issue.
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Unfortunately that's not how SLI works. It doesn't double your effective memory, even though companies advertise it like it does. The data in the framebuffers is duplicated across both cards, you still get the performance of 1 card's worth of memory, in this case 2 GB.
 
Kayant said:
It's a joke

You don't trust leaked slides?? Those are clearly not fake.
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If you follow tech sites you would know videocardz are clickbaiters. I don't expect most people on GAF to not know that if they typically use the bigger websties like anand or hardocp.
 
Boss★Moogle;147656303 said:
From what I've read there'll be 4GB models as well. Not sure if they'll be available at launch or down the line though.

But honestly 2GB for this card is fine because with a card like this you're probably not gonna be running games on Ultra with only one of these and 2GB should be fine for Medium to High settings. If you get two to SLI them to run games in Ultra then you'll have 4GB total so it' becomes a non-issue.
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SLI / XFire mirrors data between cards, so a 2x2 setup is effectively a single 2GB card with GPU twice as strong.
 
Keeping that RAM low to ensure future videocard sales.

4GB should be the mid-range standard at this point, but it really feels like Nvidia is keeping it as low as possible for as long as possible to give people a reason to upgrade in the future since these GPU's will have no trouble handling anything out there for years to come. Hopefully third parties make 4GB the standard on this card soon after launch.
 
Boss★Moogle;147656303 said:
From what I've read there'll be 4GB models as well. Not sure if they'll be available at launch or down the line though.

But honestly 2GB for this card is fine because with a card like this you're probably not gonna be running games on Ultra with only one of these and 2GB should be fine for Medium to High settings. If you get two to SLI them to run games in Ultra then you'll have 4GB total so it' becomes a non-issue.
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Memory pool isn't shared in SLI so nope they are still 2GB then.
 
wildfire said:
If you follow tech sites you would know videocardz are clickbaiters. I don't expect most people on GAF to not know that if they typically use the bigger websties like anand or hardocp.
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I dunno. Says right at the beginning he had an actual phone conversation with Jen Hsun. Might be a fake-out, but the same thing happened around the GTX 970 launch
 
Demon Ice said:
2GB on a 128 bit bus just doesn't cut it anymore



Unfortunately that's not how SLI works. It doesn't double your effective memory, even though companies advertise it like it does. The data in the framebuffers is duplicated across both cards, you still get the performance of 1 card's worth of memory, in this case 2 GB.
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My bad thanks for letting me know, I've never done SLI as I prefer having one strong card and I just assumed that you would have access to the combined memory.

The more stuff I learn about SLI the less I understand why people do it with the lesser cards. I mean with the top of the line cards SLI is the only way to improve the performance so I get it, but when people use 2 lesser card to do what one high-end card can do it really doesn't seem worth it at all.
 
wildfire said:
If you follow tech sites you would know videocardz are clickbaiters. I don't expect most people on GAF to not know that if they typically use the bigger websties like anand or hardocp.
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I definitely don't enough at least on PC hardware sides of things I know wccftech is a perfect definition of that but even if the slides are self made it's pretty much a guaranteed the card exists - http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics...-geforce-gtx-960-3dmark-benchmarks-published/
 
quite happy with my 970

i dont think 2gb ram will be enough as 1440p is quickly becoming the standard for gamers (the market for the 960) and with VR/4K/3D/120Hz on the horizon

nvidia obviously wants ignorant gamers on a budget to pick this up and then buy the "SE 4GB edition" later when they get bottlenecked
 
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