[Benchlife] Nvidia preparing a 960 Ti to counter the 380X

[SPBHM]

I am talking about there were plenty of situations where $30-50 spent above 960 - the price of a single AAA game - netted huge performance benefits and more VRAM. Considering most budget gamers use their cards for 2-3 years, there was no great reason to buy a 960 2GB for most of them. It was slow and overpriced.

$50 for a $200 product is a significant increase, sure, I agree that you can at times get a lot more for this extra,

yes, the Tahiti cards had 3GB, but the 960 was also competing with the 285, later rebranded as 380 2GB, replaced the 2GB 760 and so on.

again, the video I posted from the launch period is clear indication that the 960 had adequate performance for its price range.
you can also read all the 960 reviews, the reception was not amazing, it was no 970, but far from to negative,

I do think the lower size and power characteristics from a true, newer midrange/low end card is a positive compared to something like a 280x, a older high end card,

Nvidia had less problems and game optimized drivers available sooner for the biggest titles this year I think, like Fallout 4, Witcher 3 and so on, we can hate on GameWorks all we want, but the end result is that it delivered a clear advantage for the Maxwell cards this year.

if you check specifically benchmarks at launch from the biggest titles this year the 960 is holding well, in some games ahead of the 280x, which was on average clearly more expensive than the 960 when launched, the 960 was clearly targeting the 280 and 285 at best.

 

[sontin]

Tahiti gets saved by the 3GB memory. Otherwise nobody would care about these cards anymore (i.e. Pitcairn).
Outside of the 3GB Tahiti is just outdated:
The 280X uses nearly twice the power over a GTX960, the video de- and encoder not nearly as good as the one of the GTX960. They dont support Freesync, their VSR (downsampling) is limited, they dont support HDMI 2.0 and HDCP2.2, only supports DX12 with FL11.1 vs. DX12 with FL12.1...

It makes more sense to buy a GTX960 with 4GB for a little more than a 280X.

 

[ultima_trev]

Actually it makes more sense to save another $100 for a GTX 970 or R9 390 if you're going for a long term purchase or waiting for Arctic Islands/Pascal if dead set on budgeting for an "entry level" card.

 

[xorbe]

Take the 970, cut the clock at bit (lower the rated tdp) and sell it for $249. A 960Ti at this point is a waste of effort. If it does materialize, then I don't believe it'll hit the US market.

 

[Mem]

Tahiti gets saved by the 3GB memory. Otherwise nobody would care about these cards anymore (i.e. Pitcairn).
Outside of the 3GB Tahiti is just outdated:
The 280X uses nearly twice the power over a GTX960, the video de- and encoder not nearly as good as the one of the GTX960. They dont support Freesync, their VSR (downsampling) is limited, they dont support HDMI 2.0 and HDCP2.2, only supports DX12 with FL11.1 vs. DX12 with FL12.1...

It makes more sense to buy a GTX960 with 4GB for a little more than a 280X.

Problem is they probably have 280x like me which has turned out awesome card for age and value/performance, so 960 is very pointless, those upgrading in that range will go either go with 390 or 970, again 960 even Ti is very pointless. As to power well any gamer here probably has decent PSU like myself ie 850w Corsair(seasonic version) so that is a non issue right away, never skimp on PSU regardless of video card you use.

I'll probably hold off awhile for my upgrade.

I still think 960 is a waste.

 

[Mem]

Tahiti gets saved by the 3GB memory. Otherwise nobody would care about these cards anymore (i.e. Pitcairn).
Outside of the 3GB Tahiti is just outdated:
The 280X uses nearly twice the power over a GTX960, the video de- and encoder not nearly as good as the one of the GTX960. They dont support Freesync, their VSR (downsampling) is limited, they dont support HDMI 2.0 and HDCP2.2, only supports DX12 with FL11.1 vs. DX12 with FL12.1...

It makes more sense to buy a GTX960 with 4GB for a little more than a 280X.

Problem is they probably have 280x like me which has turned out awesome card for age and value/performance, so 960 is very pointless, those upgrading in that range will go either go with 390 or 970, again 960 even Ti is very pointless.

I'll probably hold of awhile for my upgrade.

I still think 960 is a waste.

Side note my last favourite x60 version was Nvidia 560Ti which I owned, that was good value/performance in it's time, however Nvidia have dropped the ball on the x60 series since then IMHO.