GTX 960 vs GTX 750 TI

[Stanturbo]

I know the 960 has just been released, so I'm not expecting a detailed, based-on-experience performance comparison. But both cards are made on the Maxwell architecture and both are considered "mid-range." As the title says: how do these cards compare? And what manufacturer's card is the best?

[79wjd]

The 960 is similar in performance to a 760, and can get up to 970-esque performance with a VERY HIGH overclock. 

 

I would be looking at the R9 280/x instead though as the performance will be better for less money and give you a larger 3gb VRAM, which will be important for 1080p at hihg to ultra settings going forward. 

[cesrai]

The 960 is similar in performance to a 760, and can get up to 970s performance with a VERY good overclock. 

 

I would be looking at the R9 280/x instead though as the performance will be better for less money and give you a larger 3gb VRAM, which will be important for 1080p at hihg to ultra settings going forward. 

970 performance ????? what are you saying ???????

[XDroidie626]

the 960 will beat it, the 750ti is a budget top end card, if you can afford it go for the 960.

The architecture is the same yes, speeds are not which is where you look for cards, chipset/speed/memory in that order.

For the 960, I would be looking at 270x/280 for comparison, and both of them blow the 750ti out of the water.

[Archangel1994]

and can get up to 970s performance with a VERY good overclock. 

Wot

 

Just no, not even close

[79wjd]

Wot

 

Just no, not even close

With a very big overclock you can get stock 970-esque performance. Like I said, a very good one.

[Archangel1994]

With a very big overclock you can get stock 970-esque performance. Like I said, a very good one.

You need like a 2GHz OC to do that....

 

The 960 doesn't hold a candle to the 970

 

Just look at OC3D numbers. They OC'd the 960 strix and got 37.5 fps on extreme HD valley, a stock 970 gets like 55fps...

[79wjd]

From OC3D

"In nearly every title the GTX960 comfortably outperforms the GTX750Ti, GTX760 and, more often than not, the GTX770"

 

So not quite 2ghz. A realistic overclock can reach/come close to stock 970 performance (taking into account the potentially limiting amount of VRAM.

[Archangel1994]

 

From OC3D

"In nearly every title the GTX960 comfortably outperforms the GTX750Ti, GTX760 and, more often than not, the GTX770"

 

So not quite 2ghz. A realistic overclock can reach/come close to stock 970 performance (taking into account the potentially limiting amount of VRAM

 

The GTX 770 also doesn't hold a candle to the 970... 

 

The 970 performance coincides with the 780, not the 770

[79wjd]

The GTX 770 also doesn't hold a candle to the 970... 

 

The 970 performance coincides with the 780, not the 770

And thats accounting for normal (more common) overclocks.

[Archangel1994]

At stock speeds, thats not quite true. 

So you think the GTX 960 can get a 20fps increase in performance in valley Extreme HD (From 33 fps or so)?

 

That is not possible without LN2

[FellTheSky]

With a very big overclock you can get stock 970-esque performance. Like I said, a very good one.

960 is not even remotely close to the 970.

[xAcid9]

 

From OC3D

"In nearly every title the GTX960 comfortably outperforms the GTX750Ti, GTX760 and, more often than not, the GTX770"

 

So not quite 2ghz. A realistic overclock can reach/come close to stock 970 performance (taking into account the potentially limiting amount of VRAM.

 

 

[Megahurt]

The 960 is almost but not quite double the performance of the 750 Ti, and double the tdp, and double the price.

[Briggsy]

If you took a 980 and cut it in half, you have a 960. that's not to say 2 960's will scale up to a 980. It was similar with the 780 vs. the 760. cut it in half and you have the x60 card.

 

a 960 will not reach a 970 unless its in a game/benchmark that doesn't use a lot of bandwidth. even then it shouldn't come close.

[XDroidie626]

To end all this 960 can perform like a 970...

CUDA cores - 1664 for the 970, 1024 for the 960

Memory Clocks - 1050Mhz 970, 1126Mhz 960

Mem /w size - 4GB 256bit bus 970, 2GB 128bit bus 960

Mem Bandwidth - 224GB/s 970, 112.16GB/s 960

 

Just on the clocks the 960 can not even touch, I dont care how much of an overclock you put on it, how much cooling you put on the pcb, the memory alone makes the 970 a different class, My reasons...

 

Memory buffer allows for bigger, better textures, resulting in better image quality, this also counts for resolution driving, the higher resolution you go, the more vRAM you need to drive it, adding better textures onto the pile, it requires a bigger place to put it, so bigger buffers allow for more texture and reso driving before HDD swapping must occur.

I expect most people that are here know this, or understand the basics of the GPU memory buffers, but this alone is proof the 960 cant beat, take into account memory speeds and other things.

 

If you are looking at a competing card look at the 270x/280 (Not X) if you want to look at the 750Ti which is still a great card, compare it to a 260/260x

 

My Rant is over