[Eurogamer] The state of 2GB VRAM GPUs

Arachnotronic · Jan 9, 2016

moonbogg said:
I have an allowance I give myself each week. I don't go beyond it and I don't go below it. I can save it to buy something big (like 980ti's) or I can piss it away on expensive lunch and starbucks every day. I don't have a lot of money, but the money I do have I am deliberate with and I make choices. The only credit I used is for a mortgage. I won't borrow from some rich bank CEO bastard just so I can buy a couple video cards that I can't afford. I have no debt other than a mortgage, and that's enough to piss me right off actually.

I like your thinking!

UaVaj · Jan 9, 2016

Magic Carpet said:

those frame rate are laughable.

try reducing setting for enjoyable frame rate.
~60fps be a good starting point.

sandorski · Jan 9, 2016

Anyone considering a 960 for Gaming should actually be buying a 380.

VirtualLarry · Jan 9, 2016

moonbogg said:
I have an allowance I give myself each week. I don't go beyond it and I don't go below it. I can save it to buy something big (like 980ti's) or I can piss it away on expensive lunch and starbucks every day. I don't have a lot of money, but the money I do have I am deliberate with and I make choices. The only credit I used is for a mortgage. I won't borrow from some rich bank CEO bastard just so I can buy a couple video cards that I can't afford. I have no debt other than a mortgage, and that's enough to piss me right off actually.

Wow. Wise words. That's Awesome. It should be on a poster, with a picture of your avatar. Maybe even a MEME.

(Me, gently shamed, because I spend beyond my means on computer hardware to play with.)

happy medium · Jan 9, 2016

sandorski said:
Anyone considering a 960 for Gaming should actually be buying a 380.

Do you have 2 , 380's?
I would love to bench our systems when I grab another 4gb gtx960 (if I find another one for ~170$), with all 4 of our cards overclocked.

Mabe I'll overclock my cpu as well.

I'll shoot you a pm when I grab my second card, ok?
what games do you have?

2is · Jan 9, 2016

Madpacket said:
Bitcoin which I earned with video cards years ago. I started mining when they were worth $3.00 each a and a single 5870 could earn you a whole coin in a day or two.

How do you convert gift cards to Amazon bucks?

I'll get the rebate in a VISA or AMEX form, then I simply buy an amazon gift card for the total value of the card and send it to myself.

sandorski · Jan 9, 2016

happy medium said:
Do you have 2 , 380's?
I would love to bench our systems when I grab another 4gb gtx960 (if I find another one for ~170$), with all 4 of our cards overclocked.

Mabe I'll overclock my cpu as well.

I'll shoot you a pm when I grab my second card, ok?
what games do you have?

Only have 1

Madpacket · Jan 9, 2016

2is said:
I'll get the rebate in a VISA or AMEX form, then I simply buy an amazon gift card for the total value of the card and send it to myself.

Genius. I have 3 AMEX gift cards of various amounts sitting in front of me and tend to have difficulty finding places to use them. Hopefully this works on Amazon.ca

Thanks for the tip!

Madpacket · Jan 9, 2016

happy medium said:
Do you have 2 , 380's?
I would love to bench our systems when I grab another 4gb gtx960 (if I find another one for ~170$), with all 4 of our cards overclocked.

Mabe I'll overclock my cpu as well.

I'll shoot you a pm when I grab my second card, ok?
what games do you have?

Other than power consumption I would bet on the 380's winning by a small margin.

Innokentij · Jan 10, 2016

Madpacket said:
Other than power consumption I would bet on the 380's winning by a small margin.

I wouldnt i think. The 960 is a maxwell after all, it will OC like a king.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/08/04/msi_geforce_gtx_960_gaming_4g_video_card_review/9

Magic Carpet · Jan 10, 2016

Can't wait for next-gen cards to make the current crop obsolete. The sooner, the better.

USER8000 · Jan 10, 2016

Innokentij said:
I wouldnt i think. The 960 is a maxwell after all, it will OC like a king.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/08/04/msi_geforce_gtx_960_gaming_4g_video_card_review/9

Thats only 100MHZ more than my GTX960 does out of the box,and most GTX960 cards tend to boost to around 1.3GHZ to 1.4GHZ,so as a percentage its not really overclocking that well. My GTX960 runs at nearly 1.35GHZ out of the box and its a shorter PCB model too.

The thing is the R9 380 is generally a faster card than the GTX960 especially as the resolution rises.

Innokentij · Jan 11, 2016

USER8000 said:
Thats only 100MHZ more than my GTX960 does out of the box,and most GTX960 cards tend to boost to around 1.3GHZ to 1.4GHZ,so as a percentage its not really overclocking that well. My GTX960 runs at nearly 1.35GHZ out of the box and its a shorter PCB model too.

The thing is the R9 380 is generally a faster card than the GTX960 especially as the resolution rises.

Stock boost clock is 1178, that it's boosting high for u means u have nice cool case and nvidia boost technology is working flawless for u. You should send em a mail thanking em for giving u such nice boost for free.

Zodiark1593 · Jan 11, 2016

Innokentij said:
Stock boost clock is 1178, that it's boosting high for u means u have nice cool case and nvidia boost technology is working flawless for u. You should send em a mail thanking em for giving u such nice boost for free.

Or it means Nvidia held back way too much on stock clocks. Mine is boosting to 1542 MHz with some tweaking and a tad extra volts.

And quite frankly, Maxwell needs the high clocks anyway to even keep pace with the larger Radeon counterparts.

That said, Nvidia's high clock-speed approach to the stagnating 28 nm fab is quite interesting and speaks volumes of the engineering talent there. AMD's approach simply turned out to be better albeit more expensive.

poofyhairguy · Jan 11, 2016

Magic Carpet said:
Can't wait for next-gen cards to make the current crop obsolete. The sooner, the better.

Amen, I would love a GTX 950 for sub-$100.

2is · Jan 11, 2016

Magic Carpet said:
Can't wait for next-gen cards to make the current crop obsolete. The sooner, the better.

After playing AC: Unity I feel like my 980Ti is already obsolete.

moonbogg · Jan 11, 2016

2is said:
After playing AC: Unity I feel like my 980Ti is already obsolete.

That's cause you don't have 4 of them, noob

Techhog · Jan 11, 2016

2is said:
After playing AC: Unity I feel like my 980Ti is already obsolete.

~~Or you could blame GimpWorks~~ I mean the game is as demanding as it should be and has no features to purposefully make the 980 Ti a 1080p card.

Phynaz · Jan 11, 2016

sandorski said:
Anyone considering a 960 for Gaming should actually be buying a 380.

As long as power consumption isn't part of the consideration.

2is · Jan 11, 2016

moonbogg said:
That's cause you don't have 4 of them, noob

I only have room for two sadly, but my multi-GPU days I think are behind me.

Magic Carpet · Jan 11, 2016

poofyhairguy said:
Amen, I would love a GTX 950 for sub-$100.

Yeah, I need a new HTPC card. GTX 950/960s seem to be perfect for what I want to use, but not at todays prices. Unless of course there is another "entry" Maxwell v2 SKU coming out soon (getting tired of Fermi/Kepler re-brands to death).

2is said:
After playing AC: Unity I feel like my 980Ti is already obsolete.

One game doesn't make it obsolete, does it? Last I checked, 980 Ti was still crazy fast in single-monitor gaming situations. Anyway, what you are thinking, maybe slap another card for some SLI action or wait for the next King of the hill?

2is · Jan 11, 2016

Magic Carpet said:
Yeah, I need a new HTPC card. GTX 950/960 seem to be perfect for what I want to use, but not at todays prices. Unless of course there is another "entry" Maxwell v2 SKU coming out soon (getting tired of Fermi/Kepler re-brands to death).

One game doesn't make it obsolete, does it? Last I checked, 980 Ti was still crazy fast in single-monitor gaming situations. Anyway, what you are thinking of, slap another card for some SLI action or wait till the benchmarks of the next King of the Hell, perhaps?

It was more of a tongue in cheek comment then anything else, I'm actually very happy with this card, especially paired up with a 1440p gsync monitor.

I'm waiting to see what "Big Pascal" brings to the table, that will be my earliest upgrade if I feel it's worthwhile.

USER8000 · Jan 11, 2016

Innokentij said:
Stock boost clock is 1178, that it's boosting high for u means u have nice cool case and nvidia boost technology is working flawless for u. You should send em a mail thanking em for giving u such nice boost for free.

I am running a small form factor Gigabyte GTX960 in a mini-ITX case!

poofyhairguy · Jan 11, 2016

Magic Carpet said:
Yeah, I need a new HTPC card. GTX 950/960s seem to be perfect for what I want to use, but not at todays prices.

Amen. The next gen of cards can't get here soon enough. I hope they lead with a 750 ti killer.

Zodiark1593 · Jan 11, 2016

poofyhairguy said:
Amen. The next gen of cards can't get here soon enough. I hope they lead with a 750 ti killer.

What Nvidia could do to really stick it to AMD is to release a Pascal based 960 TI.

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