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It looks like Nvidia is preparing an answer to AMD's recently released R9 380x, with a mid-range ‘sweet spot' card of its own- the GTX 960Ti. Right now, there is a pretty big price and performance gap between the GTX 960 and GTX 970, with the former coming in at $199 and the latter often priced at $329, skipping over the $230-$250 range occupied by AMD.
The initial leak comes from Chinese site, Benchlife. Assuming everything we are hearing is correct, the GTX 960Ti should feature a cut down version of the GM204 chip, this is due to the fact that the GTX 960 already utilises an unlocked GM206 GPU with 1024 cores, so there isn't any further performance potential to be found there.
Given the price point Nvidia is going to be aiming for with this card, we can expect performance somewhere in between the GTX 960 and GTX 970, potentially similar to the GTX 970m found in gaming notebooks. According to the Benchlife, the card would arrive in January 2016, so it will miss the Christmas shopping period.
Nvidia's x60Ti series cards have been quite popular over the years, though it was skipped during the last round of 700-series cards.
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KitGuru Says: AMD's R9 380x currently sits at quite an attractive price point, so it would make sense for Nvidia to prepare an option of its own to compete. Would any of you be interested in a GTX 960Ti?
The 128bit bandwidth on the GTX 960 is a bottleneck… A 192bit GTX960 will be good.
The 128bit bandwidth on the GTX 960 is a bottleneck… A 192bit GTX960 will be good.
That would be great news. I’m still enjoying my 560Ti, but obviously it is at the end of its life. I always found the 970 to be a bit too much for what I need and the 960 too little. I was alreadying thinking about the 380 but if Nvidia has a better alternative, I’m all ears.
That would be great news. I’m still enjoying my 560Ti, but obviously it is at the end of its life. I always found the 970 to be a bit too much for what I need and the 960 too little. I was alreadying thinking about the 380 but if Nvidia has a better alternative, I’m all ears.
A bit late IMO, it should be released 5-6 months ago. Pascal is just looming in the corner
A bit late IMO, it should be released 5-6 months ago. Pascal is just looming in the corner
Try the 380x, which is out now. The last thing Nvidia needs is more marketshare, which it can use to try and drive AMD out of business to become a monopoly. I was an Nvidia fanboy who only bought Nvidia cards exclusively for over 10+ years, but now I’m very leery of how they’re a near-monopoly, and are using that market power to create proprietary standards that make things bad for AMD and consumers in general, and just do stuff in general that looks like it’ll hold back PC gaming.
Sure I like Nvidia, but I like competition even more. So I encourage everyone to buy AMD stuff to keep them and Intel in check, if they have a product that suits your needs.
Try the 380x, which is out now. The last thing Nvidia needs is more marketshare, which it can use to try and drive AMD out of business to become a monopoly. I was an Nvidia fanboy who only bought Nvidia cards exclusively for over 10+ years, but now I’m very leery of how they’re a near-monopoly, and are using that market power to create proprietary standards that make things bad for AMD and consumers in general, and just do stuff in general that looks like it’ll hold back PC gaming.
Sure I like Nvidia, but I like competition even more. So I encourage everyone to buy AMD stuff to keep them and Intel in check, if they have a product that suits your needs.
They dont care ppl like you, what they want is all about your money money money
They dont care ppl like you, what they want is all about your money money money
Intel have more of a stranglehold over AMD on CPU side than NVidia does over AMD on GPU side. There’s nothing to worry about for quite a while when it comes to a monopolized GPU market if the CPU race still exists. NVidia haven’t seen the need to slow down just yet as Intel have, especially seeing the promised huge performance boosts in Pascal
Intel have more of a stranglehold over AMD on CPU side than NVidia does over AMD on GPU side. There’s nothing to worry about for quite a while when it comes to a monopolized GPU market if the CPU race still exists. NVidia haven’t seen the need to slow down just yet as Intel have, especially seeing the promised huge performance boosts in Pascal
I’m not going to buy a product to keep the market alive. If the 380X is a better card than the 960Ti, I’ll buy the 380X, if not, I’ll buy the 960Ti. If AMD cannot meet the demands of the market, it is not my job as a consumer to keep them in business. They’re a profit driven corporation, not a charity.
If in the long term Nvidia starts misusing its monopoly position, either they will be fined for it (see Microsoft – EU) or fewer people will buy their products. Graphics cards are not a primary need for us as humans, I’m not worried about the state of the sector.
And as has been shown time and time again in technology. Smaller corporations are very capable of revolutionalizing the field and usurping the crown, when a lack of competition has led to stagnation.
I’m not going to buy a product to keep the market alive. If the 380X is a better card than the 960Ti, I’ll buy the 380X, if not, I’ll buy the 960Ti. If AMD cannot meet the demands of the market, it is not my job as a consumer to keep them in business. They’re a profit driven corporation, not a charity.
If in the long term Nvidia starts misusing its monopoly position, either they will be fined for it (see Microsoft – EU) or fewer people will buy their products. Graphics cards are not a primary need for us as humans, I’m not worried about the state of the sector.
And as has been shown time and time again in technology. Smaller corporations are very capable of revolutionalizing the field and usurping the crown, when a lack of competition has led to stagnation.
The types of folks these are aimed at don’t bandwagon to the latest and greatest–a group which has held onto their GTX980 and Titan-X from the beginning. People getting GTX960 Ti might have GTX760’s or GTX670’s. Not everyone goes with the series flow.
Bandwidth is a factor of both interface and effective clock; the 128-bit interface wouldn’t bottleneck if the clock rate was high– that said, this is midrange.
Not bad at least AMD will get to enjoy the lack of competition for a few months:)
960 is too much for casual gamer like me. Been holding up for Skylake and GTX950Ti. Looks like chances of 950ti getting release getting slimmer.
This should have been released a year ago, I would have bought it, now I am going to wait for Pascal or AMD’s next offerings. If I bought this in January it would be a waste since I will probably be able to get a card that would be cheaper and faster just 6 months or so later.
They’ve probably spent the time stockpiling the GPUs that aren’t suitable for 970s that and there hasn’t really been much of a need for it back then due to lack of competition and demand for 960/970/980
Or just jump straight on a .16 micron chip, they should offer significant improvements over everything else.. could be some time off though. SO depends on when you need the speed..
Yeah I think that’s highly unlikely to get released.