GTX 960 and DX12

[RaidHobbit]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

 

[KNARF XD]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

 

[RaidHobbit]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

Will I get the 3 years out of a 960?

 

[KNARF XD]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

Will I get the 3 years out of a 960?

no, no chance, a 290(x) yes, 280x maybe

 

[TechyInAZ]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

I wouldn't say 0 improvement. If you check on some benchmarks, the GTX 960 can actually use all 4GB of it's vram. If your only using a single GPU then the extra vram won't really help at all. However if you SLI then it's worth it.

 

[KNARF XD]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

I wouldn't say 0 improvement. If you check on some benchmarks, the GTX 960 can actually use all 4GB of it's vram. If your only using a single GPU then the extra vram won't really help at all. However if you SLI then it's worth it.

he is asking for a gpu to last 3 years, so i assume he isnt going sli, and you need a z.. board for intel, or a 990x or 990fx for amd

 

[RaidHobbit]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

I wouldn't say 0 improvement. If you check on some benchmarks, the GTX 960 can actually use all 4GB of it's vram. If your only using a single GPU then the extra vram won't really help at all. However if you SLI then it's worth it.

he is asking for a gpu to last 3 years, so i assume he isnt going sli, and you need a z.. board for intel, or a 990x or 990fx for amd

I, in all my bright wisdom, decided to construct a minitower with a micro-ATX board last year. So now I see the downside to only having one GPU slot lol. I have i5-4690 on a ASRock H81-HDS board. It supports all 900 and 200 series cards.

 

[KNARF XD]

Hi All

I just checked the internet and I believe DX12 is due for release in summer this year. So that immediately says to me avoid R9 280, 280x and 285 as they don't support it.

I have three options available to me but I would prefer to spend as little as possible. That means I only want what will satisfy my needs which are:

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

The three options are a 2GB 960, 4GB 960 or a 4GB 970. Is the 4GB 960 going to be a good deal once DX12 is out?

RH

the amd cards have better dx 12 support than nvidea, so what you said isnt true, the 280(x) and 285 are dx 12 supported
if you are willing to wait half a month, because there is a new lineup coming out from amd, and you may get a better deal.

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

I wouldn't say 0 improvement. If you check on some benchmarks, the GTX 960 can actually use all 4GB of it's vram. If your only using a single GPU then the extra vram won't really help at all. However if you SLI then it's worth it.

he is asking for a gpu to last 3 years, so i assume he isnt going sli, and you need a z.. board for intel, or a 990x or 990fx for amd

I, in all my bright wisdom, decided to construct a minitower with a micro-ATX board last year. So now I see the downside to only having one GPU slot lol. I have i5-4690 on a ASRock H81-HDS board. It supports all 900 and 200 series cards.

most people have 1 gpu, doesnt matter

 

[robisinho]

edit: the 4gb version of the 960 gives 0% improvements, it is only a recommendation if you really want the 960 and the 2 and 4 gb are priced the same.

I don't think this is true. In fact I think it is the opposite: video ram is probably the deciding feature for how future-proof a 1080p-targetted card is going to be. There are games that have hi-res textures that won't let you use them unless you have the video ram. You don't need to be able to feed ROPs faster, most of it is just texture files that the developers lazily push into the gpu all at once per scene...

Gaming in high settings on a 1080 HDTV
Graphics card that lets me do that for 3 years.

In terms of getting 3 years out of your card: DX 12 will substantially lower the performance requirements from newer games .. if you are staying at 1080p, 24 bit color, and 60hz, your biggest limiting factor is likely going to be video ram. The processing power of all three cards (and the amd's which you incorrectly assume do not support DX12) would suffice.

Going forward from 2016 on, amd and nvidia are trying to match display tech. Right now 4k 4:4:4 is becoming common, next year 4k@120hz and 4k@10bit or 12bit color-per-channel will start to roll out. And the earliest screens at 8k that matter will start showing up. By 2017 or 2018 you will see 8k@120hz with 12bit or 14bit color, becoming commodity displays by about 2020. There is agreement from the display tech industry that this is happening... they are even in partnership with governments (Japan) and large scale organizations like the Olympics in promising to deliver these displays *en masse*.

The point of this is that.. processing power we have now is already sufficient, and always will be, for 1080p. The reason for more powerful graphics cards going forawrd is going to be to support newer display tech.