GTX 960 4GB version benchmarks?

[SteveGrabowski]

Has anyone seen benchmarks for 4GB GTX 960s yet? I'm interested to see if the extra VRAM allows them to outperform the R9 280 on games like Shadows of Mordor that are VRAM hungry even at 1080p. I'm wondering if the 128 bit bus is enough to handle heavy VRAM usage and whether the 4GB card corrects a critical weakness in the original 960 or not. Anyone seen anything?

[incarnate]

it won't. really the 4 gb vram is really just for sli. you're talking about a card that is exactly half of a 980 gpu. it isn't powerful enough to make much use of the extra 2 gigs

[Ostwind]

I haven't seen any but a 128bit bus it not enough for 4GB of VRAM no matter what manner of fancy compression Nvidia invented.

[TheKDub]

For a single GPU setup I highly doubt that the 4GB version will perform much better than the 2GB version, though in a multi-gpu setup that may be different.

[dark_globe]

sli performance won´t be great either
even with 4gb version due to 128bit memory bus .
single gtx 970 is still better option .

[incarnate]

For a single GPU setup I highly doubt that the 4GB version will perform much better than the 2GB version, though in a multi-gpu setup that may be different.

 

 

SLI 960s doesn't even make sense unless you've already owned a 960. a single 970 performs just as well as sli 960s. so really the 4gb 960 is just... why does it exist? lol

[SteveGrabowski]

It's speculation without hard numbers backing it, though I'd expect it to be true since Nvidia seemed to shy away from 4GB models at launch. Still, I remember everyone questioning the 980 because of its 256 bit bus early on.

[Megahurt]

I would not expect the 4GB to have better average fps, maybe the minimum could be better.

[SilentAvenger]

With the 4GB version in Heaven benchmark (after overclocking) I get 42.1fps average. 1920*1080 Ultra everything, Etreme tessalation, and 4xAA. I get 80fps average at 1440*900 with AA off.

[SilentAvenger]

Anybody have a link to the 2GB version heaven stats, for comparison?