GTX960, any news?

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I am planning on getting a new rig soon, I wanted to get the 970 however after thinking about it I do not need such an expensive card, is the 960 coming out any time soon?
 
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Should be a fairly good card, I bet it will outperform the 760, despite the small bus due to the maxwell colour compression and other improvements.

Hopefully we will get a 960 ti based on the 970 with a few cores cut but retaining the full 256 bus.
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Are the specs confirmed? Doesn't sound that good to be honest
 
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I might be wrong but I think it'll be better than what you'd expect from just the specs. From what I've heard Nvidia themselves said that the 960 wil be able to play all games on high settings with AA on with 60fps, even games like the new Far Cry and Assasins Creed. So if that's the case (which is yet to be seen), they might have made even more changes to the architecture, compared to the 970 and 980, and I'm wondering what those are. Was vaguely hoping for it to be 20nm, after they made the Tegra X1 on that process, but all the rumoured/confirmed specs show that it's still on 28nm.

I also hope there won't be any coil whine issues like with the 970 and that the manufacturers use better capacitors and conductors this time...
 
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Should be a fairly good card, I bet it will outperform the 760, despite the small bus due to the maxwell colour compression and other improvements.

Hopefully we will get a 960 ti based on the 970 with a few cores cut but retaining the full 256 bus.
 
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Correction on what I said about the fps by the way, that number of 60 was a average of about 6-7 games, including slightly less demanding ones like Hitman and Civilization. Still not a bad numer, in the same graph the GTX 660 had about 36-37 fps average there, so going by those numbers the 960 will be about 65% faster. So yeah I guess it's probably gonna be similar to the 770 in terms of speed, and indeed it can't be much faster than a 770 or it will come too close to the high end cards such as 780 and also the 970. Anyay, I think it will cost more than the rumoured 200 then, around 230 I think (sadly, but we'll see).

And I agree, AMD has to do something fast, Nvidia is just filling market gaps now as they please, probably gonna release some 960 Ti soon to fill the 960 and 970... By this rate, if both companies take it so slowly, I'm predicting that in a few years Intel will suddenly make a faster integrated GPU than all Nvidia and AMD's dedicated ones, lol.
 
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We will know more on release day January 22nd, but the GTX 960 is really a replacement for the GTX 660. The Nvidia product stack leaves plenty of room between the GTX 960 and GTX 970 for a GTX 960 Ti, or even the GTX 965 that has been mentioned around. The GTX 960 will still be a very good card for its price, and should be relatively cheap.
 
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Nvidia calls it 660 replacement too, and in terms of performance it's gonna fill the gap the 770 left behind (they'll prolly gonna keep selling the 760 for another while though).

I'm becoming more and more sceptical now though, because that's what I don't like about this card, it seems to be just a gap filler more than anything else.
And that "high settings 1080p gaming at 60fps" stuff is really outdated now imo. The GTX x60 cards have had to meet that standard requirement for many years now, and with 1440p and 4K becoming affordable soon, I'd say the standard has to go up at some point. Yes, it will handle 1080p at 60fps this year, but in a year you'll probably have to turn down the settings to medium, and everyone else will be gaming at 1440p or 4K then, so for a 200+ dollar card I personally would expect more these days.
But yeah let's just wait for the launch to see the performance and the pricing, and we can judge then.
 
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