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NVIDIA's GM206 is essentially half of the full GM204 GPU that you find on the GTX 980. If you missed the discussion on those new features including MFAA, Dynamic Super Resolution, VXGI you should read that page of our original GTX 980 and GTX 970 story from last September for a bit of context these are important aspects of Maxwell and the new GM206. The power efficiency, the improved memory bus compression and new features all make their way into the smaller version of Maxwell selling for $199 as of today.

But to understand what makes it different than the GM204 part we first need to dive a bit into the GM206 GPU and how it matches up with NVIDIA's "small" GPU strategy of the past few years.įirst and foremost, the GTX 960 is based on the exact same Maxwell architecture as the GTX 970 and GTX 980. The good news is that Maxwell and the GM206 GPU will price out starting at $199 including overclocked models at that level. In fact, there are some interesting comparisons to make that may surprise fans of both parties.

As we have seen several times in the last year or two with a stagnant process technology landscape, the new cards aren't going be wildly better performing than the current cards from either NVIDIA for AMD. But does the brand new GTX 960 based on Maxwell move the needle?īut as you'll soon see, the GeForce GTX 960 is a bit of an odd duck in terms of new GPU releases. So here it is, today's the day, NVIDIA finally upgrades the mainstream segment that was being fed by the GTX 760 for more than a year and half. If you didn't just assume it was coming chances are the dozens of leaks of slides and performance would get your attention. Calling today's release of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 a surprise would be like calling another Avenger's movie unexpected. It will be live at 1pm ET / 10am PT and will include ten (10!) GTX 960 prizes for participants! You can find it all at Can it topple AMD’s lead at $199?Įditor's Note: Don't forget to join us today for a live streaming event featuring Ryan Shrout and NVIDIA's Tom Petersen to discuss the new GeForce GTX 960.