Will The Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 Launch At CES In January?

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Hmm, might the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 be launching at CES?

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[DookieDraws]

Certainly nothing to go outside and do cartwheels over!

 

[TechyInAZ]

192 bit!!??? Why is NVidia making all the bus bandwidths small on Maxwell GPUS?

I can't wait for this to be out, gtx 770 performance at $250 is crazy good.

 

[fonzy]

Only 2Gb of ram? I think I will wait to see what AMD's comes out with before I buy.

 

[tinmann]

What I want to see at CES in January is the GTX 990.

 

[CRITICALThinker]

Honestly, I think 3GB is probably better for a mid range GPU, though there will be premium 4GB variants if it is 2GB, and RAM is expensive. $250 is a bit rich for my blood, I think $200 - 230 would be an ok price until the 950 + ti comes out most likely much later.

 

[elbert]

If GM206 is like GM204 the GTX960 is half the SMM of GTX980 but worse a fourth cut down of GTX970 SMM. At That much of a cut down I wouldn't pay more than $150. It better be at least 192-bit with 3GB if Nvidia expects to get $200. With a 128bit memory its only 8 SMM with 1024 which will suck. This could be the specs of the 950 or 950ti.

 

[Wisecracker]

I suspect OEMs are getting 'steamed' with their card inventories as is.

By adding another card to the mix which likely cannibalizes the most popular card in the product stack, things are going to get much more steamy ...

 

[CRITICALThinker]

If GM206 is like GM204 the GTX960 is half the SMM of GTX980 but worse a fourth cut down of GTX970 SMM. At That much of a cut down I wouldn't pay more than $150. It better be at least 192-bit with 3GB if Nvidia expects to get $200. With a 128bit memory its only 8 SMM with 1024 which will suck. This could be the specs of the 950 or 950ti.

Looking at the tomshardware review of the 980 the 960 could very well be 8 SMM's, and the memory interface seems to fit well with 2GB if so. I don't really see nVidia making a radically different die with 10 SMM blocks, and somehow carrying a bigger memory interface, I would expect the 950 ti to have 6 SMM, and the 950 to have for or 5, with less texure units (comparing to the 750 series)

 

[DonQuixoteMC]

192 bit!!??? Why is NVidia making all the bus bandwidths small on Maxwell GPUS?

Nvidia is using a clever texture compression technique that significantly lowers the amount of bandwidth needed. Pretty neat stuff!

I'm really excited about this card, it's definitely going to upset the R9 280s and maybe even the 290s @ 1080p until AMD cuts prices further or comes out with some new competition.

 

[HomerThompson]

192 bit!!??? Why is NVidia making all the bus bandwidths small on Maxwell GPUS?

I can't wait for this to be out, gtx 770 performance at $250 is crazy good.

The R9 290 is way better than GTX 770 performance and was selling in that range most of November.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1068?vs=1037

Sad if that's the level of performance we're expecting for a new card launching at $250.

 

[darkchazz]

When will 20nm GPUs be released ?
That's the one thing that will make me upgrade from my gtx 670

 

[9900GT]

if it costs above 250 then only rich people can buy it
It must cost 225 so most gamers can buy it

 

[chimera201]

I thought it was going to have 4GB VRAM 256-bit according to this report
http://techreport.com/news/27343/geforce-gtx-960-appears-in-import-shipment-record

 

[Sakkura]

When will 20nm GPUs be released ?
That's the one thing that will make me upgrade from my gtx 670

Rumor has it AMD will introduce 20nm cards in Q1 2015, while Nvidia will skip 20nm and release 16nm cards later in 2015 (Q3-4?).

 

[renz496]

i dare to bet it is either 256 bit 4GB or 192 bit 3GB. 2GB doesn't seem right. even GTX750Ti which is and entry level card have 2GB for reference when they launch the card back in february.

 

[renz496]

When will 20nm GPUs be released ?
That's the one thing that will make me upgrade from my gtx 670

Rumor has it AMD will introduce 20nm cards in Q1 2015, while Nvidia will skip 20nm and release 16nm cards later in 2015 (Q3-4?).

well there are already rumor talking about AMD will stay with 28nm as well for their 300 series. and instead of TSMC 16nm FF they will move to GF 14nm (most likely FF as well) for their next node.

 

[Darksword]

2GB, 192 bit and $250.00? That sucks. You might as well get an R9 290 for less money with twice the VRAM and way more memory bandwidth. If those specs are true, this card isn't worth more than $200.00. Low power draw is moot when you're spending $50.00 more than the card is really worth.

 

[Terry Perry]

I have the MSI hooked up to a 4690K what a nice card next year I will get another when the prices drop. It even runs on a 550 80plus. My R 280X wouldn't even turn on with it. Why I bought the card 2 280's would need at least 850 or higher, a good 750 should run Both 970's in SLI. Then I can do a 4k later.

 

[jackt]

Finally!!! I hope it will be cheap, since maxwell is not so new anymore...

 

[giovanni86]

980Ti.. Screw lower performance cards. Send out the chi-bang-bang.

 

[d_kuhn]

My new GTX970 equipped machine showed up yesterday... and I'm liking that card A LOT already.

 

[s7_rocks]

People here are forgetting that Maxwell were specifically designed to consume less bandwidth in order to reduce tdp by using larger l2 cache....GTX 750 and 750 ti only consume around 40% of the bandwidth available on 128 bit bus width so 192 bit seems about right size for 960...VRAM however is a different story and with next gen consoles using unified RAM and VRAM the multiplats will start demanding around 3-4 GB in the near future...

 

[InvalidError]

192 bit!!??? Why is NVidia making all the bus bandwidths small on Maxwell GPUS?

If they have enough memory bandwidth efficiency gains to afford dropping down to a narrower memory bus, it saves power, memory subsystem complexity, ball count on the GPU, parts count on the PCB, etc.

If you can provide the same or better performance for $20-30 lower total cost, why not? If Nvidia feels comfortable doing it, it must mean the GPU had very little use for the extra memory bandwidth.

 

[InvalidError]

When will 20nm GPUs be released ?

Due to the many delays with 20-22nm at many chip foundries while 14-16nm appear to still be mostly on-schedule, I would not be too surprised if more chip designers decided to skip 20nm.

Depending on how high demand will be for 14-16nm though, some chip designers might get forced to re-tool their design for 20nm due to backlogs.