See ya GTX 580 - Ahoy GTX 960

Aniallation · January 22, 2015

havnt checked price in canada? is it that the 960 is very cheap here or that the R9 280/280x are overpriced?

In any ways though i have seen great deals on R9 290 and R9 290X recently that's what i would recommend if one can afford a 350$ GPU...

EDIT: ...well i just checked and the GTX960 is priced similar to the R9 280X...AMD is still the better choice in canada.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/296017-for-fucks-sake-canada/

MageTank · January 22, 2015

The fact that the GTX 960 has aprox 63% less cores than a 970, half the memory bandwidth, and still is debuting at a $250 price point, i would not touch the card personally. It absolutely NEEDS to be $200 to even match the price to performance alone on core count ($200 + 63% = $326, the MSRP of GTX 970 is $329). If you factor in the memory bandwidth being even slower than the 970 and 980, you still lose out on price:performance in my eyes.

The 970 is easily the price:performance sweet spot on the green team. It has 63% more cores than the 960, and 23% less cores than the 980. However, it also costs 67% less than a 980, making it the obvious choice when factoring in how much performance you get for the price. Honestly, the red team has better budget oriented cards at this point, with the only budget nvidia card worth touching being the GTX 750 Ti, due to its lack of a 6 pin connector and extremely low TDP for OEM cases, or small form factor builds.