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GTX 960 pictured !!!

Just chiming in to the vram debate.

As you can see here, texture quality has very little affect on over all gpu load, it is more determined by the amount of vram you have. It just resides in memory so to speak.

See under Far Cry 4 texture performance.

Your talking a difference of about 3 fps, if you have the vram.

Having the vram capacity will indeed allow you to enable those higher textures with very little hit on performance.
 
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I have a GTX660 which I got 21 months ago for £135 with a free copy of Metro:LL. Looking at the last leaked benchmark this looks around 10% faster than a GTX760,but I suspect it will cost more.

Meh,looks like I will be waiting another year or spending over £200. Just seems rather meh TBH and I like how the most ardent supporters of this card would never buy one themselves. I suppose it makes their cards look better I suppose and its not helped by the rather meh R9 285 either,although at this rate it might make that look better if it gets a price drop and I thought that was a useless release too(outside the technical improvements it had).

I suppose there will be the power consumption bumpf as usual although any half decent 450W PSU is fine for a GTX760.

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Another thing is the new consoles are not the lead for many games currently and they will be the leads for many games over next two years which will inflate requirements.

People who buy cards like this will probably keep for more than 18 months easily. I suspect it will be another fast core bottlenecked by not enough ROPs and memory bandwidth IMHO.
 
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Sometimes it's better to just buy a better card than a midrange one.When I first started gaming on my pc I started mid range.. But you swap your card more often. Since I decided on buying the more expensive cards you don't, and you get more vram bigger buses and a better sli/xfire path. If you want nvidia and the 960 has left you wanting, the best advice I can give anyone is save up the extra cash and go for the 970..problem solved.

But we are enthusiasts and are more educated in PC components (I'd like to think we are ☺) it's the general consumer that will buy these 960's all we can do is advise anyone we know that asks the question.. Is the 960 worth my money.
 
I've only just come back to the PC fold following a console gaming / Mac hiatus, and I was fairly shocked by current GPU prices. The last major GPU purchase I'd made was a couple of 8800GT to run in SLi, which provided phenomenal performance for the money.

You can still get high end performance for reasonable money by going 2nd hand. I got a couple of 290s once their 2nd hand value dropped to a reasonable level (averaged £140 a card).

I'm very interested to see what performance the 960 offers and at what price point. I'm hoping it will be a great mainstream card, offering 60fps+ 1080p gaming for the masses at high detail levels. Something to lure people away from the currently poor crop of consoles.
 
lichfield said:
Sometimes it's better to just buy a better card than a midrange one.When I first started gaming on my pc I started mid range.. But you swap your card more often. Since I decided on buying the more expensive cards you don't, and you get more vram bigger buses and a better sli/xfire path. If you want nvidia and the 960 has left you wanting, the best advice I can give anyone is save up the extra cash and go for the 970..problem solved.
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This is exactly what I have done. Was waiting a bit to see what the 960 would become but in the end decided to go for the higher end 970. My rig is more than 3 years old but with this upgrade I should be able to squeeze another 3 years out of it, which will have been good value for decent performance (2500k CPU, gaming at 1440p now).
I'm still keeping an eye on what the 960 will be like, but from what information is out there, I think the 970 was the right choice for me and was worth the extra.
 
Part of the issue is that AMD seems to be not really releasing anything newer ATM too,which is kind of giving Nvidia a bit of a free reign ATM.

Might be looking at a secondhand GTX970 at this rate - hopefully a few B-grade ones will pop up on OcUK. The R9 290 cards are good value and would do the job but are not really suitable for my SFF build,especially due to length too.
 
Thats what the only leak has indicated - it might be faster,but it depends on whether Nvidia wants to protect GTX965TI sales too.

It appears the GTX960 SKU is being broken into parts - the GTX960 and the faster GTX960TI.

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I would not surprise me the GTX960TI and GTX965TI are GM204 based with 192 bit memory controllers.

Gibbo said the GTX970 prices are going up due to currency exchange rate fluctuations.
 
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The prospect of the GTX965ti shows that Nvidia are well aware that 4GB memory is not particularly much use without sufficient grunt behind it.
 
The Running Man said:
If its only 10% faster than a 760 then it needs to be £150 to £160 max.

Any higher pricing would be a lackluster launch.
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Can you imagine the uproar if a new high-end card was only 10% faster than last gen? I hope no-one will defend this card if it really is only 10% faster. I hope.
 
People expect way too much from both AMD and Nvidia, so what if they rebrand older flagships to serve as "new" mid-end cards? They're more than capable of running all games at 1080p at high-ultra now, with a few exceptions like Metro, wasnt an issue for me though because i dont run frikking stock when know i can pull 20-30% more frames out of my ass with a decent overclock.

too much whining going on in threads like these.
 
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Thats what the only leak has indicated - it might be faster,but it depends on whether Nvidia wants to protect GTX965TI sales too.

It appears the GTX960 SKU is being broken into parts - the GTX960 and the faster GTX960TI.

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I would not surprise me the GTX960TI and GTX965TI are GM204 based with 192 bit memory controllers.

Gibbo said the GTX970 prices are going up due to currency exchange rate fluctuations.
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That graph doesnt impress me. What is the 960 clocked at? 9xx core? What is it boosting too? 10xx core? What happens when we clock it to 1500+ core?
 
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