GTX 960 Ti?

[EZY17]

So I wanted to know everyone's thoughts on the 960 Ti. Will it be a thing or will Nvidia not even release one? Let the discussion start.

[givingtnt]

no no no no

no such things as a ''ti''  

[Enderman]

nah

[ttam]

Just give me a 990 already and I'll be happyyyyy

[flibberdipper]

If it does come out, it will likely be an OEM part like the GTX 760Ti.

[othertomperson]

Just give me a 990 already and I'll be happyyyyy

 

Why not get two 980s and halve the clock speed yourself!

[SteveGrabowski]

You guys don't think Nvidia has a stockpile of GM204 chips that are failed 970s? There is so much of a gap between the GTX 960 and GTX 970 price-wise, you have to think Nvidia will have something in the middle. Plus that one leak from the Korean site that got the performance of the 960 spot on a few weeks before release claimed to test two other Nvidia GPUs, one of which performed near the 780 level. I'd be surprised to not see a GTX 960 Ti once the R9 300 series launches. It might be a good competitor for a possible $250 R9 380x (rebranded R9 290x).

[DildorTheDecent]

There's a OEM GTX 960 Ti. most definitely. 

[EZY17]

You guys don't think Nvidia has a stockpile of GM204 chips that are failed 970s? There is so much of a gap between the GTX 960 and GTX 970 price-wise, you have to think Nvidia will have something in the middle. Plus that one leak from the Korean site that got the performance of the 960 spot on a few weeks before release claimed to test two other Nvidia GPUs, one of which performed near the 780 level. I'd be surprised to not see a GTX 960 Ti once the R9 300 series launches. It might be a good competitor for a possible $250 R9 380x (rebranded R9 290x).

I'd love it that would happen. Hopefully with 3GB of ram and a 256 bit bus and around $250. I would be so happy. Take a look at this: http://techreport.com/news/27726/report-4gb-of-ram-coming-to-gtx-960-in-march

[Bussinateur]

960 Ti is probably not gonna happen. Nvidia wants you to pay more for the 970. 

 

And yeah if by chance it does happen, its going to be an OEM part

[EZY17]

960 Ti is probably not gonna happen. Nvidia wants you to pay more for the 970. 

 

And yeah if by chance it does happen, its going to be an OEM part

I really hope they make one that isn't OEM.

[SteveGrabowski]

960 Ti is probably not gonna happen. Nvidia wants you to pay more for the 970. 

 

And yeah if by chance it does happen, its going to be an OEM part

 

You think so? I'm not sure 960 can hold the midrange when AMD looks to be coming out with a full Tonga R9 370x and Hawaii R9 380/380x. I'd have to think Nvidia will have a response to that if 70x sells for $200 and 80x for $250. That's a huge price gap for Nvidia between the 960 and 970 and the 970 is too good of a card for them to drop its price.

[Bussinateur]

You think so? I'm not sure 960 can hold the midrange when AMD looks to be coming out with a full Tonga R9 370x and Hawaii R9 380/380x. I'd have to think Nvidia will have a response to that if 70x sells for $200 and 80x for $250. That's a huge price gap for Nvidia between the 960 and 970 and the 970 is too good of a card for them to drop its price.

 

Nvidia might just cut the pricing on 960 and 970 by $50 or so. I doubt AMD 370X will be much better than the 960 tho

[EZY17]

You think so? I'm not sure 960 can hold the midrange when AMD looks to be coming out with a full Tonga R9 370x and Hawaii R9 380/380x. I'd have to think Nvidia will have a response to that if 70x sells for $200 and 80x for $250. That's a huge price gap for Nvidia between the 960 and 970 and the 970 is too good of a card for them to drop its price.

Agreed. Man, it's awesome to be on the consumer side of this. Think about. We will ALWAYS win. Consumer always wins. We will always have the option to buy the best deal. Anyone get what I am saying?

[SteveGrabowski]

Nvidia might just cut the pricing on 960 and 970 by $50 or so. I doubt AMD 370X will be much better than the 960 tho

 

The R9 285 is already slightly better than the GTX 960 and that's a gimped Tonga chip. Isn't R9 370x supposed to be the full Tonga, or am I wrong and it'll just be a 285 rebrand? I do think Nvidia will have to drop the price on the 960 a bit but the 970 will still sell like crazy at $330. I think Nvidia really needs something in that $250-$280 range.

[SteveGrabowski]

Wasn't there supposed to be a full Tonga R9 285x that got shelved when AMD realized they had no hope of competing with the GTX 970 at the price they wanted to launch it at? I bet that's what the R9 370x will be.

[ttam]

Why not get two 980s and halve the clock speed yourself!

My new obsession is small builds so having a 990 in my ncase n1 would be sweet.

[EZY17]

The R9 285 is already slightly better than the GTX 960 and that's a gimped Tonga chip. Isn't R9 370x supposed to be the full Tonga, or am I wrong and it'll just be a 285 rebrand? I do think Nvidia will have to drop the price on the 960 a bit but the 970 will still sell like crazy at $330. I think Nvidia really needs something in that $250-$280 range.

Exactly... So 960 Ti hopefully

[david cassar]

Guys there is also this benchmark circulating around the internet. It shows that there are two variants of the 960 ti. The graph shows how the 960 ti is actually as fast as a 780 at stock .If this is true then the 960 ti is going to be an amazing GPU especially if priced for 250$ or less.

[EZY17]

Guys there is also this benchmark circulating around the internet. It shows that there are two variants of the 960 ti. The graph shows how the 960 ti is actually as fast as a 780 at stock .If this is true then the 960 ti is going to be an amazing GPU especially if priced for 250$ or less.

Damn that's really good. Should I wait to get the 960 Ti or get a used 280 for $100?

[david cassar]

Damn that's really good. Should I wait to get the 960 Ti or get a used 280 for $100?

Get the used 280 tbh. Nvidia havent even said the 960 ti exists yet and who knows how long it may be when it's released. Also it's going to probably cost over 200$ when it comes out. Also the 280 is a very good card and exceptional value at 200$, let alone for 100$. Get the 280.

[SteveGrabowski]

Damn that's really good. Should I wait to get the 960 Ti or get a used 280 for $100?

 

What CPU do you have?

[othertomperson]

Get the used 280 tbh. Nvidia havent even said the 960 ti exists yet and who knows how long it may be when it's released. Also it's going to probably cost over 200$ when it comes out. Also the 280 is a very good card and exceptional value at 200$, let alone for 100$. Get the 280.

 

I would guess that if such a thing even exists Nvidia are waiting for the 290X to be rebadged as a 380X and take the price point of the 280X.

 

*Edit: I obviously mean release price. You're going to be expected to pay more for the fancy new lettering on the plastic than what the 290X costs currently because it's a "new card".

[SteveGrabowski]

I would guess that if such a thing even exists Nvidia are waiting for the 290X to be rebadged as a 380X and take the price point of the 280X.

 

*Edit: I obviously mean release price. You're going to be expected to pay more for the fancy new lettering on the plastic than what the 290X costs currently because it's a "new card".

 

You think it'll be $300? I figured on a price cut to really undercut the 970. If Nvidia releases a GTX 960 Ti with 3GB VRAM and near 780 performance at say $280 it will absolutely murder the 380x in sales.

[othertomperson]

You think it'll be $300? I figured on a price cut to really undercut the 970. If Nvidia releases a GTX 960 Ti with 3GB VRAM and near 780 performance at say $280 it will absolutely murder the 380x in sales.

 

I think it would be very optimistic to expect the 380X, the second most powerful in a "new series" to cost the same or less than the dramatically reduced end-of-life price of the 290X. In spite of them being the same exact thing with a different shroud.

 

I don't think there is any room between the 960 and the 970 to put a new GPU, so what I suspect will happen is that the 960 will be reduced to a sort of 750 Ti kind of price, with the 960 Ti being the real mid tier Maxwell card. For this price, the 960 would actually be an extremely good GPU to get.

 

Bear in mind that the 970, at stock speed, basically performs like a 780 and the 980 only performs marginally better (though with overclocking it can match a 780 ti quite easily), I'm not sure how you're expecting the 960 Ti to perform. It doesn't make sense for Nvidia to have three cards spanning from £200 right through to over £400 with only incremental performance differences between each.