NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Launch Date Revealed

Kaapstad · 1 Jan 2015 at 09:40

The more I think about it the more interesting the GTX 960 seems to be. I don't take anything posted on wccftech very serious so I will leave that there. What does interest me is with Maxwell the lower spec cards are also the biggest overclockers and I can see some really interesting scores turning up on the bench threads and I can see the 960 arriving with massive overclocking headroom.

Darujhistan · 1 Jan 2015 at 12:09

256bit 4Gb and 192bit 3Gb could be an option

That would interest me, but I don't think I can hold out, I want to buy next week really.

Probably this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-323-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842

Probably a bit overpriced v lower end 290s, but I don't think I need a 290 and would rather keep the £60. I fancy NV for a change, but there's no way i'm buying a 2GB VRAM card.

Ian Evey · 1 Jan 2015 at 13:35

Darujhistan said:
256bit 4Gb and 192bit 3Gb could be an option

That would interest me, but I don't think I can hold out, I want to buy next week really.

Probably this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-323-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842

Probably a bit overpriced v lower end 290s, but I don't think I need a 290 and would rather keep the £60. I fancy NV for a change, but there's no way i'm buying a 2GB VRAM card.

I don't think the 280x (7970) is worth it over your 7850 right now, a few more weeks and some newer stuff might be out.

Darujhistan · 1 Jan 2015 at 13:49

Ian Evey said:
I don't think the 280x (7970) is worth it over your 7850 right now, a few more weeks and some newer stuff might be out.

Ugh...

Beginning to think the same thing, sounds like there's some proper 960s on the way not just the crappy base card. My brain won't let me rule out a 970 either.

Do you know when the new AMD's are out?

Much as it pains me to wait I think i'll regret it if I don't, at least to wait and see the 960ti's.

I only started looking in April!

FoxEye · 1 Jan 2015 at 13:57

Darujhistan said:
Do you know when the new AMD's are out?

We don't know when, what process they're using, if they are using HBM, or in fact anything about them at all

The rumours suggest a tweaked Hawaii chip in Q1, followed by a "new" generation in 2H 2015. I would guess 28nm, since all we've ever heard from the beginning is that 20/16/14nm is not suitable for high power devices (currently).

Orangey · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:13

Is it me or have NV been neglecting the 60 cards lately?

Of course, the ti was usually the one most people flocked to, 6600gt anyone.

Darujhistan · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:13

FoxEye said:
We don't know when, what process they're using, if they are using HBM, or in fact anything about them at all

The rumours suggest a tweaked Hawaii chip in Q1, followed by a "new" generation in 2H 2015. I would guess 28nm, since all we've ever heard from the beginning is that 20/16/14nm is not suitable for high power devices (currently).

That's no good to me!

I'll see what the 960ti's bring, then that's it. Final, end of!

Would it be safe to assume that the 960ti would use less power than the 280x?

Ian Evey · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:23

I think you would regret the 280x over your current card, it's just the waiting game gets a bit frustrating especially if the 960 is not much more of an improvement over the 280x or even whatever amd bring out too probably a 360x.

We're there not 290's not so many weeks ago for £199, that would be worth it over your 7850 and only £20 more than the 280x.

Davedree · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:24

Orangey said:
Is it me or have NV been neglecting the 60 cards lately?

Of course, the ti was usually the one most people flocked to, 6600gt anyone.

My last nvidia cards were a 6600gt and a 7600gt agp

Darujhistan · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:31

Ian Evey said:
I think you would regret the 280x over your current card, it's just the waiting game gets a bit frustrating especially if the 960 is not much more of an improvement over the 280x or even whatever amd bring out too probably a 360x.

We're there not 290's not so many weeks ago for £199, that would be worth it over your 7850 and only £20 more than the 280x.

Yeah I think so.

Well, let's say the 960ti is 20% faster than a 280x, then that's a pretty big upgrade over my 7850.

I nearly dived on one those 290s @ £200 but was worried about the crazy power consumption, which is where the 970 comes in, but then again it's another big chunk of money more than a 290.

facepalm...

humbug · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:38

With an 850 Watt PSU why are you so worried about power consumption? ^^^^

It also depends on what you are doing and / or what you play, the 970 can pull just as much power as the 290.

Jamielicious · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:47

The funny thing is a 970, especially overclocked, can use as much power as a 290, that's why some 970 cards have the same power sockets as the 290 (1x6pin and 1x8pin).

I did,expect there to be a 960Ti but what's made me a little,wary of the benchmarks above is that I wouldn't have expected a 280X to be ahead of a 770 or a 290 to beat 780. Makes me wonder what games were chosen.

Jamielicious · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:49

Based on that chart though I'd expect pricing to me 960 for £150, the lower 960Ti for £175 and the upper 960Ti to be £200.

JustCallMeVlad · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:50

I have a feeling the 960 Ti is going to be a carbon copy of the 670 in the value department

Now I want some 1600 core, 8000 mem benchmarks

Darujhistan · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:50

humbug said:
With an 850 Watt PSU why are you so worried about power consumption? ^^^^

It also depends on what you are doing and / or what you play, the 970 can pull just as much power as the 290.

I have a largish wattage PSU, I'm not sure how that's incompatible with power consumption concerns.

On average though at idle and during a broadish test a games, which would consume more power? I'm not bothered about OC'ing benching over and over again either.

I got the impression a selling point of the 970 was better power consumption than 290/290x.

humbug · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:55

Jamielicious said:
The funny thing is a 970, especially overclocked, can use as much power as a 290, that's why some 970 cards have the same power sockets as the 290 (1x6pin and 1x8pin).

I did,expect there to be a 960Ti but what's made me a little,wary of the benchmarks above is that I wouldn't have expected a 280X to be ahead of a 770 or a 290 to beat 780. Makes me wonder what games were chosen.

Yeah, they are 'that' only power efficient when its not running at full steam because its able to regulate the amount of power it uses in conjunction with how much its stressed, if its at full stress it sucks just as much power as any GPU of similar performance, including the 290.

Darujhistan · 1 Jan 2015 at 15:00

humbug said:
Yeah, they are 'that' only power efficient when its not running at full steam because its able to regulate the amount of power it uses in conjunction with how much its stressed, if its at full stress it sucks just as much power as any GPU of similar performance, including the 290.

Right, the AMD cards are running at full steam all the time that rings a bell from something I read a while back.

I'm maybe over-doing the power thing, over a year I doubt it's going to bankrupt me running a 290 for example over my current card.

Orangey · 1 Jan 2015 at 15:06

770 = 680
280X = 7970GHz, which pwned the 680

Makes sense to me.

Ian Evey · 1 Jan 2015 at 15:09

Darujhistan said:
Right, the AMD cards are running at full steam all the time that rings a bell from something I read a while back.

I'm maybe over-doing the power thing, over a year I doubt it's going to bankrupt me running a 290 for example over my current card.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-970-g1-gaming-review,7.html

Depends if you regard upto 100 watts less not worth it, many sites have stated around £30 per year saving. All depending on what exactly you do with the the card, like overclocking.

humbug · 1 Jan 2015 at 15:10

Darujhistan said:
Right, the AMD cards are running at full steam all the time that rings a bell from something I read a while back.

I'm maybe over-doing the power thing, over a year I doubt it's going to bankrupt me running a 290 for example over my current card.

Exactly, there is info on the net to suggest AMD will be bringing in power regulation technology similar to what Maxwell has, its confirmed for their next APU by AMD themselves and plenty of rumour it will be on the next GPU's with excellent results.

But like with any rumour, pinch of salt.

Personally i don't see what the problem is, a "power consumption Complaint like this" did not exist on the net before Maxwell, pepole were perfectly happy with the power draw of Kepler, Tahiti and Hawaii cards.... now suddenly 250 Watts is unacceptable?

Its placebo, people who are running Maxwell because they think 250 Watts will melt the earth ARE actually pulling that amount of power in their 970 half the time they use it.