(Rumour) Nvidia Preparing Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 Ti Graphic Card To Compete With The Radeon R9 380X – Alleges Report

[Mr_Troll]

Nvidia allegedly preparing the Geforce GTX 960 ‘Ti’ graphic card for launch

The GTX 960 has 1024 CUDA Cores (in 8 SMMs) while as the GTX 970 has 1664 CUDA Cores (in 13 SMMs). If green is preparing a card that lies somewhere between the GTX 960 and GTX 970 then the card will probably have either 10 or 11 SMMs (for 1280 – 1408 CUDA Cores), both of which are comfortably spaced from the GTX 960 and GTX 970 respectively. The price points of the 960 and 970 are $199 and $329, so a card lying in the center will probably retail around the $249 mark. 

Its worth nothing that the variant with 10 SMMs is more likely because Nvidia already has a GTX 960 OEM edition with 10 SMMs (1280 CUDA Cores), something it can brand as the GTX 960 Ti for the mainstream market. The OEM edition of the card also has a 192 bit bus width (an upgrade over the 128 bit bus width provided with the mainstream 960) which makes it a completely different card, even though the primary nomenclature is the same. Given below is a specification comparison of the two cards:

 

The new card will naturally be based on the MX 2.0 architecture and will support DirectX 12 upto feature level 12_1. Since Pascal wont be arriving before the second quarter of 2016, Nvidia has to make sure its lineup is in tip top shape to compete against AMD. The company actually lost a bit of market share this quarter, and its relatively weak middle end lineup could be one reason for that. With a GTX 960 Ti (we don’t know what the final nomenclature would be, this is just a guess) competing against the Radeon R9 380X (which outclasses its Nvidia counterpart currently) the company would have a well balanced lineup in its mid-end as well.

Before we end this piece, I would like to note once again that this is a rumor, and should therefore be taken with a healthy amount of your favorite salt. Even though this seems logical, it is possible that Nvidia pulls a Maxwell 1.0 and releases pascal test chips as the 950 Ti/960 Ti respectively (like it did with the GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti). It is also my duty to point out that while the aforementioned is certainly a possibility, it is not a probability, since the chances of Nvidia repeating that marketing gimmick are quite slim.

 

 

GM204? A cut down version of a cut down version? Lol? Its too late Nvidia. U should have it ready already. Guess amd wins this time.

 

 

Source: https://benchlife.info/nvidia-postpone-geforce-gtx-960-ti-or-geforce-gtx-950-ti-11232015/

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-preparing-launch-geforce-gtx-960-ti/

 

[Lethal Seraph]

I don't see the point. But I guess green team can afford whatever decision even if it doesn't make sense.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Actually makes a lot of sense.

[PerfectTemplar]

I don't see the point. But I guess green team can afford whatever decision even if it doesn't make sense.

Makes sense, the 380X is substantially better than the 960, even the 4GB 960 for only a slightly higher price. If Nvidia can match the performance at the same price or maybe even beat it. It will keep them in the high mid range market.

[Grrizz]

Wow, such insider information, nothing that you could take a complete guess at and have an extremely high chance of being right about ;P

[Nineshadow]

It's been a while since we had a x60Ti card.

[That Norwegian Guy]

INB4 another useless 2GB obsolete-from-the-drawing-board card.

[Tech_Dreamer]

why does GPU companies hold back section of GPU for a while? aside from business aspect the consumers feel pretty shitty knowing that they bought a new GPU & a few weeks later a fresh gpu (better than what they've originally bought) shows up with similar price range with better performance

 

#Rant

[PerfectTemplar]

why is GPU companies hold back section of GPU for a while? aside from business aspect the consumers feel pretty shitty knowing that they bought a new GPU & a few weeks later a fresh gpu (better than what they've originally bought) shows up with similar price range with better performance

 

#Rant

They don't hold back a section of a GPU like that.

 

 

INB4 another useless 2GB obsolete-from-the-drawing-board card.

 

Nvidia discontinued 960 2GB cards. 4GB is the normal now.

[Tech_Dreamer]

They don't hold back a section of a GPU like that.

 

is it planned manufacture delay? i thought they just delayed to sell a certain performance tier section of GPU to sell more of that tier for profit , giving consumers no other option but to buy that instead of waiting...

[That Norwegian Guy]

Nvidia discontinued 960 2GB cards. 4GB is the normal now.

 

Well it's a 192-bit bus so it can't be an even number of VRAM. It's 99% guaranteed it's going to be 3GB.

[don_svetlio]

Fucking called it 6 months ago

[Castdeath97]

INB4 another useless 2GB obsolete-from-the-drawing-board card.

Probably not all board parters are dropping 2GB cards it's time for them to die in the mid range market.

[Shoob]

Well it's a 192-bit bus so it can't be an even number of VRAM. It's 99% guaranteed it's going to be 3GB.

660 Ti had 192 bit bus and 2 GB of VRAM. It was Kepler though.

[don_svetlio]

660 Ti had 192 bit bus and 2 GB of VRAM. It was Kepler though.

the memory there was 1GB module + 512MB + 512MB modules

[Leonsst]

Yeah, I don't see 960 Ti 3GB with 192-bit, when we have 960 4GB, that seem kind of strange

[Lethal Seraph]

Makes sense, the 380X is substantially better than the 960, even the 4GB 960 for only a slightly higher price. If Nvidia can match the performance at the same price or maybe even beat it. It will keep them in the high mid range market.

Maybe. Maybe it's just a pure douche move, just so you can compete on whatever little foothold AMD has. I mean come on, green team dominates the dGPU already by a shit ton.

The move would be retarded, but with their current profit margin- they can certainly afford it.

[PerfectTemplar]

is it planned manufacture delay? i thought they just delayed to sell a certain performance tier section of GPU to sell more of that tier for profit , giving consumers no other option but to buy that instead of waiting...

Not 100% sure how it works, but I believe a lot of the chips they use for lesser GPUs such as 970 over 980 are just cut down versions that wouldn't run properly fully unlocked.

 

Someone more educated could probably correct me. But they generally haven't delayed any performance tiers this time around. The GTX 980 was fully unlocked and the GTX Titan X was a different, fully unlocked chip. The GTX 980 Ti was a cut down Titan X which came later, suggesting the usual 'didn't make the cut for Titan X' sort of thing.

 

Depending on the chip it could be that it was a delayed tier of GM206, but it also could be just a cut down 970 (GM204) which is what the article suggests.

[GM_Peka]

Fucking called it 6 months ago

TBH, I think everyone called it when we knew the performance of the 960 and CUDA count.

[patrickjp93]

Well it's a 192-bit bus so it can't be an even number of VRAM. It's 99% guaranteed it's going to be 3GB.

With a 6GB version.

[Prysin]

With a 6GB version.

at a 25% price premium over the normal version, despite being only 5% faster

[Hunter259]

Maybe. Maybe it's just a pure douche move, just so you can compete on whatever little foothold AMD has. I mean come on, green team dominates the dGPU already by a shit ton.

The move would be retarded, but with their current profit margin- they can certainly afford it.

There's no such thing as a douche move. You want to be the best at every price range. Period.

[Suika]

Well it's a 192-bit bus so it can't be an even number of VRAM. It's 99% guaranteed it's going to be 3GB.

Did you know that the GTX 660 Ti 2GB is operating on a 192-bit bus?

[Humbug]

Maybe. Maybe it's just a pure douche move, just so you can compete on whatever little foothold AMD has. I mean come on, green team dominates the dGPU already by a shit ton.

The move would be retarded, but with their current profit margin- they can certainly afford it.

LOL how is it a douche move. It's nothing new? cut-throat competition.

Nvidia released the 780ti as a response to 290x. They probably released the 980ti in anticipation of Fury-X, and sucesfully took the wind out of AMD's sales.

Going back AMD released the 7970Ghz edition as a response to the 680 to ensure they kept the performance crown.

I could go on; this has been happening for over a decade. Nothing douche about it. Just competition.

[Sauron]

Makes sense, the 380X is substantially better than the 960, even the 4GB 960 for only a slightly higher price. If Nvidia can match the performance at the same price or maybe even beat it. It will keep them in the high mid range market.

 

there's also the fact that you can get an r9 290 for more or less the same price as a 380x, and chances are it will wipe the floor with a hypothetical 960ti. This is simply because the 290 is much closer to 970 performance levels. If they don't want to cannbalize the 970's market they'll want to nerf the 960ti accordingly