GTX 960 Review Roundup

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBryqtNAGQ
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-960-2GB-Review-GM206-199
http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/588...iew-extremely-efficient-full-hd-graphics-card
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru.../68544-nvidia-gtx-960-performance-review.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/946-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960/Techspot(GW Phantom)/
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-GTX-960-Grafikkarte-259742/Specials/Test-Review-1148357/
http://techreport.com/review/27702/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-graphics-card-reviewed
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-geforce-gtx-960-strix-2-way-sli-review,1.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_960_SSC_ACX_Cooler/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2872...view-maxwell-meets-pc-gamings-sweet-spot.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960,4038.html
 
Looks like an excellent card, just such a pity the pricing here is way off due to the weak Rand :(

I need to upgrade from my 570 sometime...
 
The best card vs. price (thus value) in my opinion stays the 970 in my opinion. I'm still happy that I managed to upgrade my one pc with a $199 ($219 incl. everything) XFX R9 280X DD Black edition, paid in $ (no exchange), my buyer even claimed rebate on the $199. Then a week later they had 970’s between $229-279 and up. This was in December.

@ $199 the 960 has a strong competitive price, but other cards can come down unexpectedly. However, this is applicable to Canada/USA.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
The best card vs. price (thus value) in my opinion stays the 970 in my opinion. I'm still happy that I managed to upgrade my one pc with a $199 ($219 incl. everything) XFX R9 280X DD Black edition, paid in $ (no exchange), my buyer even claimed rebate on the $199. Then a week later they had 970’s between $229-279 and up. This was in December.

@ $199 the 960 has a strong competitive price, but other cards can come down unexpectedly. However, this is applicable to Canada/USA.
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Yeah, the 970 is where it's at. The 960 looks weak sauce imo - barely an improvement over the 760.
 
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I like this review (also bringing the 760 into comparison), my only disappointment with the reviews are that most reviewers are comparing this card to the high-end. The 960 is however best in its league, no argue in my opinion. I won't say these cards are old when took into direct comparison with the cards it's replacing, the architecture is greatly improved, whereas the requirements to do acceleration are coming to a slow-down which may change in the coming months.

All-in-all, this is a great card to accommodate mid-spec pc’s and is able to do gaming and design at a recommended level.
 
Damn the 960 is expensive in SA. A certain distributer is selling them for +- R500 less than a 970. Not worth is unless the price is well below 3 grand.
 
paul5186 said:
Damn the 960 is expensive in SA. A certain distributer is selling them for +- R500 less than a 970. Not worth is unless the price is well below 3 grand.
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And at current prices you may as well buy yourself a GTX760 2-4GB or a Radeon R9 280 3GB for less. I don't think there's a lot of scope for improving the available memory bandwidth, but it will be interesting to see what Nvidia can do with the limited resources on the card.
 
The only reason I'd jump to a 960 is for the benefits in power consumption - Fermi is a hungry bugger.

BUT, I'd be paying more than I paid for my GTX570 three years ago for a not-so-big jump in performance. As paul5186 said, I'd rather push a little bit more for the 970 and have a card that will last a few years.

Personally I am waiting for AMD to release their 300 series cards, hopefully it will at the very least push nVidia's prices down to an affordable level
 
Rickster said:
"This card will run LoL and CS GO on maximum settings."

Really? Why was that mentioned.
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One thing though, even when reviewers mention maximum settings in 'any' game. The CPU and memory can still bottleneck the GPU. You can even take PSUs, motherboards and SSDs/HDDs into this equation.
 
Rickster said:
Look at the name brand, no wonder its so cheap.
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Well there's a gigabyte mini for R3300, but don't underestimate the Galax bramd just because they haven't paid for booth babes in South Africa yet.

Those cards performance are on par with the rest.
 
HideInLight said:
Well there's a gigabyte mini for R3300, but don't underestimate the Galax bramd just because they haven't paid for booth babes in South Africa yet.

Those cards performance are on par with the rest.
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Nothing wrong with Galax, it is a merger between Galaxy and KFA2, both previous Nvidia partners. It is actually the same company, but Galaxytech was an Nvidia OEM partner where KFA pushed the retail in Europe. Now merged to sell on global scale. It is pretty much what XFX is doing with AMD.
 
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