What features exactly does it offer that justifies its launch MSRP over a $175 GTX960 with a free MGS game?
Asus GTX950 = $170 + shipping, no game.
vs.
EVGA SC GTX960 = $175 + free shipping, free game (at least $15 value).
At computerbase, an after-market GTX960 is 23% faster at 1080P against the Asus Strix 950. That means the most 950 should cost is $175 / 1.23% = $142 and if we assign some value to the game, $142 - $15 = $127 US.
GTX770 can be bought for $180 and that card is 27% faster than the Asus Strix 950. And if we look $200 XFX R9 280X, that card is 31% faster than the Asus Strix 950.
$160-180 for a 950 is a crazy rip-off. The card needs to be $129 to make any sense.
nvidia pricing has seemed too high until recently for the 900 cards (970 has just recently fallen below $300 and 960 just below $200), and this seems to continue it.
can this SLI?
What features exactly does it offer that justifies its launch MSRP over a $175 GTX960 with a free MGS game?
Asus GTX950 = $170 + shipping, no game.
vs.
EVGA SC GTX960 = $175 + free shipping, free game (at least $15 value).
At computerbase, an after-market GTX960 is 23% faster at 1080P against the Asus Strix 950. That means the most 950 should cost is $175 / 1.23% = $142 and if we assign some value to the game, $142 - $15 = $127 US.
GTX770 can be bought for $180 and that card is 27% faster than the Asus Strix 950. And if we look $200 XFX R9 280X, that card is 31% faster than the Asus Strix 950.
$160-180 for a 950 is a crazy rip-off. The card needs to be $129 to make any sense.
why do you continue to pick extremes in prices to prove your point?
I thought this was a really exciting release when it was supposed to come out at $150, since you know some retailer is going to start offering it with a $20 rebate in a month. You pretty much have to go Nvidia at the low end since AMD's DirectX11 driver overhead is such a problem when using a low end CPU (see Eurogamer's testing with an i3; and who buys a 50-series card with an i5 or better?). But at $170 when you can get an EVGA GTX 960 SSC for $175 like RS showed?
I got my EVGA SSC GTX 960 for $165 open box. Was a nice score and performance seems to be around 2/3 of a stock GTX 970. When did 2 GB suddenly become low end though? Barely a year or so ago, 2 GB meant you were doing very well.i was interested in the 950 if the price was right, newegg had some open box (already?) for $154.99, i was just able to snag a NIB gigabyte 960 on fleabay for $168 shipped.
my opinion on price is the 950 should shove the 960 to $150ish and the 950 should be $129
looks like MSI is the first to apply price pressure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127844
I got my EVGA SSC GTX 960 for $165 open box. Was a nice score and performance seems to be around 2/3 of a stock GTX 970. When did 2 GB suddenly become low end though? Barely a year or so ago, 2 GB meant you were doing very well.
I got my EVGA SSC GTX 960 for $165 open box. Was a nice score and performance seems to be around 2/3 of a stock GTX 970. When did 2 GB suddenly become low end though? Barely a year or so ago, 2 GB meant you were doing very well.
Seems like it's hard to find the mini ITX ones on sale. Just the ginormous cards. 960 IMO with the single 6 pin is a great candidate for a mini ITX build with a fanless PSU.
It isn't low end at all, it's just there's a slight performance gap today between 4GB and 2GB at 1080p (like 10%) and people are extrapolating that it's going to be a huge difference in a few years in console ports. We'll see. I think it's overblown mainly because these cards are too weak anyway. In a few years a 4GB card might be 30-40% faster but we're talking about 30fps vs 21fps. In other words you would want to be upgrading anyway. It's just the resale value of the 4GB card will be much higher.
It's been pretty well proven that the 960 can and does make use of 4GB in scenarios where > 2GB is needed. If <= 2GB is needed, it doesn't matter, and that does describe 99% of the games on the market right now.
When it matters, it matters, and the 960 is perfectly capable of using it.
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