NVIDIA’s “Maxwell” GPU architecture come now in the form of GeForce GTX 960.
Based on NVIDIA’s new GM206 silicon, with 2.9 billion transistors, and 294 mm² die-area, and a narrower 128-bit wide memory bus, translating to just four memory chips on card to achieve its 2 GB, the GTX 960 is built to cost, and will give NVIDIA a vast amount of headroom for price-cuts.
The GeForce GTX 960 features 1,024 CUDA cores, 64 TMUs, and 32 ROPs, exactly half those of the GeForce GTX 980.
It even has half the TDP, rated at just 120W.
Cards based on this chip draw power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, which is a single 8-pin at best, for factory-overclocked ones.
The core is clocked at 1127 MHz, with 1178 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory (GDDR5-effective).
NVIDIA’s new memory bandwidth management tech gives it a 20 percent effective bandwidth uplift.
Prices start at US $199.99, $50 lower than what the GTX 760 started out at.
Be ready also for all the custom designs from all the video card manufacturers.
