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A Chinese web-site has published what it claims to be specifications of commercial graphics cards based on Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX 960 graphics processing unit as well as preliminary benchmarks of the graphics adapters. While the speed of the new boards will be significantly behind that of modern high-end graphics boards, their performance level is not low.
According to a publication of PCEva.com.cn web-site, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card based on the code-named GM206 graphics processing unit sports 1024 stream processors, 64 texture units, 32 raster operations pipelines as well as 128-bit memory controller. Thanks to default GPU clock-rate of over 1200MHz, the new GPU will have 2.4TFLOPS of performance. Peak memory bandwidth of the GeForce GTX 960 will be around 112GB/s due to 7GHz clock-speed and 128-bit memory bus.
The GeForce GTX 960 scores P9960 and X3321 points in 3DMark 11, 6636 points in 3DMark Fire Strike, 3438 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme as well as 1087 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, according to PCEva.com.cn. If the numbers are correct, then the GeForce GTX 960 will offer performance – at least in 3DMark benchmarks – comparable to that of the GeForce GTX 680 and the GeForce GTX 770.
If the GeForce GTX 960 offers performance comparable to that of the GeForce GTX 770 at around $200 price-point, it has all chances to become popular. Still, it should be noted that performance in 3DMark hardly reflects performance in actual video games.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: Since the information comes from an unofficial source, takes it with a grain of salt. However, keeping in mind that the release of the GeForce GTX 960 is near and the amount of leaks is pretty significant, the GPU configuration of the GM206 (1024 SPs, 64 Tus, 32 ROPs, 128-bit memory) seems to be correct.
less Cuda Cores then the GTX 760 @ 1152:96:24
why is the 960 lower then the 760 preformence
Cores aren’t everything, the maxwell cores offer much more perforamnce than the kepler cores. Hence why it’s going to perform like a GTX 680/770. But you wouldn’t know because clearly you didn’t even read the article.
I read it but for apps like Adobe ect that use cuda cores its kind of a downer.. I waiting to see the 965ti specs before thinking of replacing my 760
If you even read the article you would see that the 960 offer performance comparable to the 770 at a $200 price point.
With 128bit data bus will go nowhere. And I was reading some ugly stuff about that $200 price point, but I do believe that in the end it is going to be a $200 card, or it will be a total meaningless card.
I thought the 965 and 965 Ti rumours were as baseless as that performance bar chart that was released with them. Anyways, 760 + performance for 100 watts is what I like, 960 and i5, a 450 watt supply gives you room to spare.
The GTX 650 Ti has more CUDA cores, more texture address units, and higher memory bandwidth than the GTX 750 Ti… yet the 750 Ti blows it out of the water in performance.
GTX 960 will easily outperform the GTX 760. The gap will probably be smaller than previous generation, but from the sounds of it Nvidia plans to release a 960 Ti. So this will be slightly better than GTX 760 at around $200, with a 960 Ti pricing $250 that will probably be on a 192-bit bus.
Just my speculation.
Keep in mind Maxwell architecture is significantly more efficient in memory throughput and requires less bandwidth to reach the same results. The GTX 750 has lower bandwidth than the 650 Ti yet performs better. Similarly with the Radeon R9 285 and Radeon R9 280.
We’ll have to wait and see but I think the GTX 960 will do absolutely fine for 1080P gaming. I’m hoping for a 960 Ti with a 192-bit bus to take the $250 slot though.
Yes I know, but looking at how 970/980 lose their advantage against 290/290X at higher resolutions, I don’t expect to see 960’s 128bit bus to do any better. I don’t think Nvidia’s optimizations and compression techniques will be enough to double the bus’s performance.
This line of cards from Nvidia are excellent for today, especially if you limit your expectations. Tomorrow with DX12, where CPUs will not be as much of a bottleneck and the cards will be able to perform much better in more mainstream systems, I believe we will see some serious bandwidth problems with the 900 series cards. Especially with 2015 games. Next series of cards from Nvidia could be the same cards with wider buses.
STRANGE SPACE…………
Why would one want such a small improvement?????
In my opinion anything more than 760/960 is overkill for 1080….
And for 1440 a R9-290 or a 970 is needed………………………….
760 can hardly keep up with todays 1080p games….
if you don’t bealive me go to your nvidia control panel > manage 3D settings.. Max them out.
Then go into a game like BF4 > options Video and max that out too…
and then watch the game tank to like 7 fps or less
People always argue back. My BF4 Runs at 60+ FPS on max setting. Then I ask them what there video control panel says… most the time there clueless…
Again-if you want to play at those settings-a small improvement is useless…
You need a 980 or R9-290 to even get close to playable framerates…………….
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thats why I said the 760 to the 960 would be useless.. I more intrested in the 765Ti assuming it shows up.. I don’t want to brake the bank but today games at decent setting/fps need at lest 4GIG of vram and 1500+ cuda cores plus many other higher specs…
rumor has the 765TI at 1530 Cuda’s 4 GIG Vram… 256bus and is they can keep the price around the 280-310 mark to fill the gap between the 960 to 970 I jump on that.
kind of like how the 560ti448 filled the price/performance gap between the 560 to 570
The performance seems to be close with that of the R9 285 and GTX 770. I just hope NVIDIA price this one right. There is still a huge performance difference between GTX 960 and GTX 970. And I’m thinking that a certain GTX 960 Ti or GTX 965 will fill this gap.
http://thepcenthusiast.com/club-3d-radeon-r9-285-royalqueen-review/
http://thepcenthusiast.com/asus-geforce-gtx770-dc2oc-2gd5-review/3/
there is no point maxing out control panel because it gives no real shit, but hogs performance. You can take any GPU you want and cripple it with max settings, but the point is, if HIGH settings give you 90% of eye-candy and runs 2-3 times faster than max – nobody gives a shit about max settings then.
Lies. The 760 plays at 60FPS.
good job in not reading.
I can easily get the 760 to run 60+ FPS with ultra crappy graphic setting with in game and by completely making ever thing in the video control panel to lowest..
Good job in making absolutely no sense.
“Maxing out control panel” -So you basically artificially crippled your own hardware because of some shitty software, good for you.
I didn’t know that the NVidia Control Panel = shitty software thats cripples video cards performance…. that must be the reason why Nvidia requires it to be instead with there drives…
http://gyazo.com/bd2947ad876a16f73610c35cc3829fcc
http://gyazo.com/2421511e22d12b9f20fafe23ab6ccf78
wouldn’t game with out it
https://media.8chan.co/webm/src/1415593345431.webm
i dont know what you’re talking about mate. i have a 660Ti TOP by ASUS, it runs games at Max 60FPS + at 1080 even games like Shadow of Mordor. Maybe ur not doing ur settings right. To add that i run Dota2 @ 4k using DSR mode. runs around 50+FPS