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Nvidia Corp.’s forthcoming performance-mainstream graphics card – GeForce GTX 960 – will not only utilise rather high-performance GM204 graphics processor, but will also retain 256-bit memory bus and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, which will likely result in high performance in high resolutions.
According to Zauba.com database, which monitors imports and exports to and from India, a sample of the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card has 256-bit memory bus and 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6GHz. The graphics processor of the GTX 960 sample is clocked at 933MHz, according to the filing.
The fact that the GeForce GTX 960 features 256-bit memory bus means that it also sports 64 raster operations pipelines. However, exact configuration the GM204 GPU is unknown. In a bid to create a gap between performance of the GeForce GTX 970 and the GeForce GTX 960, Nvidia could only enable 11 streaming multiprocessors on the latter, which means that it will sport 1408 stream processors and 88 texture units.
It is expected that Nvidia will launch the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card in the first quarter of next year. While exact pricing of the board is unknown, expect it to cost less than $249 in North America and less than €249 in mainland Europe. The price of the card in the U.K. will likely be around £200.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: It is necessary to say that Nvidia will unlikely roll-out its GeForce GTX 960 graphics card before it has enough GM204 processors and before its partners get rid of GeForce GTX 760- and GTX 770-series graphics boards. If the demand for the previous-generation graphics adapters is low this holiday season, the GeForce GTX 960 will see the light of the day rather later than sooner since performance-wise it should leave all older cards of the same class significantly behind.
Should be a helluva good 1080P card for sure
cant wait i want one so badly 😀
I’d like to see them in 8gb. Clearly devs are making games that need more than 4gb of VRAM because of the shared RAM in the consoles, so it really does look like we’re going to need more. Sure, it’s possible that devs will start actually optimising for the PC, but right now I see that as unlikely.
That’s all we have to look forward too, because we’ll have NO 20nm graphics cards come 2015, same old 28nm, and with that I’m thinking about getting the GeForce GTX 980 with 8GB’s VRAM and forgetting about the 20nm until they head to 16nm for a few years. Thank You TSMC for that one.
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This is what I have been waiting for and to be honest I would have been happy with 192 bit and 3GB, so definitely not complaining. Now if they can just release the 960 at the same time as Fallout 4…
Will probably be the best 1080p card for price/perf on the market for some time. I’m holding on with my 2GB 660, because the GTX 760’s not a big enough leap and the GTX 970 is too much in the grand scheme of things for the kind of gaming I plan on doing.
Hope Nvidia launches the GTX 960 soon. I’d like some peace of mind before Witcher 3 hits.
Yeah I know. Im still using a GTX570 in my main rig with 2600k and in my backup Im using a 6950 2gb card, But both are about the same performance except the back up rig has an I5-2320 in it
I do wish AMD would respond with something soon though so can begin a price war. Where Nvidia released these 900 series cards at such a good price. AMD will try to beat it to hold the price to performance ratio although AMD will have a new die shrink which should see some excellent gains as well