I currently have an Asus Strix Gtx 970 in my system, but i'm curious to see who will be buying the new Gtx 960 and what kind of systems you guys will be putting it in, so let me know.
Even if I was looking to upgrade right now I'd probably hold off for a bit since the new AMD cards are supposedly coming out real soon. Nvidia has been pushing their power draw down with their new cards, but AMD apparently has a bunch of brand new tech coming with their cards.
Ha. http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-radeon-r9-280-4k-benchmarks/
I don't think it makes much of sense to get one at 200 usd when other cards in the same price bracket will take it for performance unless you absolutely need the power and thermal efficiency.
Those benchmarks don't seem to accurate lol.
They are correct. It isn't in FPS it is in percentage of performance. So the 960 is 100% and the AMD card is rated as a percentage of that so in the one case for example it is rated as 160%. So it is 60% faster than the 960.
These benchmarks are at 4K and are simply just to show how much the narrow bus of the 960 holds it back.
It may be good in an HTPC because it is quiet, power efficient and small. Other than that I don't think anyone should buy it.
It is pretty slow in all honesty and kind of expensive for what you get. If you wanna play with filters, MSAA or at higher resolutions too it is pretty much worthless.
You can get an R9 280 which is just as fast and faster at higher resolutions and with filters for less money. Or for $30-50 more you can buy an R9 290 which will destroy it.
The 960 could have been faster but they didn't want it to cannibalize sales from the 970. I'm assuming there will prob be a 960 Ti just to screw everyone who bought this.
I made a prediction about 3 months ago that THIS would be the GTX 960, based off both the GTX 970M which had launched at the time, and what the GTX 760 had been. I'm really disappointed that nVidia didn't come close to that, and instead knocked it back into being a GM206 based part with 2GB on a 128-bit bus.
Of course they haven't made mention of a GTX 960 Ti, but it may very well end up matching the specs (and price) I thought would have been the GTX 960.
Probably neither since the 970 has the memory issue and the 960 is just lacking it in general.
the 960 almost made me puke tbh.
get a 290.
It's bout $60 more
It's got twice the Vram
It's got significantly more performance & performance per dollar
Yes, my opencl score was like ~2600
I think that for the current AMD competition Nvidia stacks up ok in performance but not performance to price ratios. R9 290's can be found for $230 with rebates and are as strong as sli 960's. One 970 is about equal to the R9 290 and the sli 960's are about as strong (a little bit better) as a single 970. When AMD launches the 3xx series stuff Nvidia is going to lose in both price to performance and performance if the leaks we've seen are somewhat accurate. I don't expect this to be a winning generation in pure performance for Nvidia.