Sweet-spot graphics card for 1080p gaming
Nvidia has officially launched its newest "sweet-spot" US $199 priced mid-range graphics card based on the latest GM206 Maxwell GPU, the Nvidia Geforce GTX 960.
The new Geforce GTX 960 graphics card is based on Nvidia's new 28nm Maxwell GM206 GPU with 2.9 billion transistors on a 294mm² die-area, which features 1024 CUDA cores, 64 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The GPU is paired up with 2GB of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit memory interface.
While it is already clear that most, if not all, Nvidia AIB partners will have custom versions of the Geforce GTX 960 graphics card, the reference Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 ended up at 1127MHz for the GPU base, 1178MHz for the GPU Boost clock, while 2GB of GDDR5 memory, paired up with a 128-bit memory interface, is clocked at 7.0GHz.
While previous graphics cards could be held back by a narrower 128-bit memory interface, the Geforce GTX 960 is a different story, mostly due to Nvidia's memory compression technology with third generation Delta Color Compression and caching improvements, which should increase effective memory bandwidth by up to 20 percent, something that we have already seen on GM204 based GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards.
The Geforce GTX 960 ended up with a 120W TDP so it draws power from a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. It also comes with DVI, HDMI and three DisplayPort outputs.
The new Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 also brings all those new "Maxwell" features including new MFAA (multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing), Dynamic Super-Resolution, G-Sync, ShadowPlay and other.
Nvidia has described the US $199 priced Geforce GTX 960 as the "sweet-spot" graphics card for 1080p gaming, and specifically targets MOBA gamers, which is currently the biggest gaming genre in the world.
With such price, the Geforce GTX 960 is definitely a good choice and all we need now is AMD's response, as Nvidia currently holds the upper hand in the mid-range market.
We had a chance to review a couple of GTX 960 graphics cards including the ASUS STRIX OC Edition GTX 960 as well as the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 960, where you can check out more information regarding performance, noise and power levels.
Source: Geforce.com.
The new Geforce GTX 960 graphics card is based on Nvidia's new 28nm Maxwell GM206 GPU with 2.9 billion transistors on a 294mm² die-area, which features 1024 CUDA cores, 64 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The GPU is paired up with 2GB of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit memory interface.
While it is already clear that most, if not all, Nvidia AIB partners will have custom versions of the Geforce GTX 960 graphics card, the reference Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 ended up at 1127MHz for the GPU base, 1178MHz for the GPU Boost clock, while 2GB of GDDR5 memory, paired up with a 128-bit memory interface, is clocked at 7.0GHz.
While previous graphics cards could be held back by a narrower 128-bit memory interface, the Geforce GTX 960 is a different story, mostly due to Nvidia's memory compression technology with third generation Delta Color Compression and caching improvements, which should increase effective memory bandwidth by up to 20 percent, something that we have already seen on GM204 based GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards.
The Geforce GTX 960 ended up with a 120W TDP so it draws power from a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. It also comes with DVI, HDMI and three DisplayPort outputs.
The new Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 also brings all those new "Maxwell" features including new MFAA (multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing), Dynamic Super-Resolution, G-Sync, ShadowPlay and other.
Nvidia has described the US $199 priced Geforce GTX 960 as the "sweet-spot" graphics card for 1080p gaming, and specifically targets MOBA gamers, which is currently the biggest gaming genre in the world.
With such price, the Geforce GTX 960 is definitely a good choice and all we need now is AMD's response, as Nvidia currently holds the upper hand in the mid-range market.
We had a chance to review a couple of GTX 960 graphics cards including the ASUS STRIX OC Edition GTX 960 as well as the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 960, where you can check out more information regarding performance, noise and power levels.
Source: Geforce.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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