Sitting right now at $220 ($210 after MIR) the MSI GTX 960 GAMING 2G is more or less the same price as a standard R9 280 or a 280x/290 on discount. We have seen that the price to performance is quite competitive at 1080p gaming but this year the push seems to be for performance at higher resolutions. [H]ard|OCP explored the performance of this card by testing at 2560 x 1440 against the GTX 770 and 760 as well as the R9 285 and 280x with some interesting results. In some cases the 280x turned out on top while in others the 960 won, especially when Gameworks features like God Rays were enabled. Read through this carefully but from their results the deciding factor between picking up one or the other of these cards could be the price as they are very close in performance.
"We take the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU based MSI GeForce GTX 960 GAMING 2G and push it to its limits at 1440p. We also include a GeForce GTX 770 and AMD Radeon R9 280X into this evaluation for some unexpected results. How does the GeForce GTX 960 really compare to a wide range of cards?"
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Gigabyte GTX 960 G1 Gaming 2 GB @ techPowerUp
- Asus GeForce GTX 960 DirectCU II OC STRIX @ eTeknix
- ASUS GeForce GTX 960 Strix @ Benchmark Reviews
- Asus GeForce GTX 960 Strix OC @ Silent PC Review
- Gigabyte G1 Gaming GeForce GTX 960 @ eTeknix
- GeForce GTX 960 Article Round Up @HiTech Legion
- Linux Benchmarks Of NVIDIA's Early 2015 GeForce Line-Up @ Phoronix
- Corsair HG-10 gpu bracket @ HardwareOverclock
**cough** Title needs
**cough** Title needs changing. It says the GTX 760 at 2560 x 1440 🙂
After a quick scan of the numbers (read more later when i get home) the GTX960 really isn’t a super impressive card. Doesn’t seem like it would be enough to convince someone with a 760 or 770 to upgrade. I have a GTX780 and still hanging on with that at 2560 x 1440. Only difference is i bought the ROG swift so the drop in FPS rates are barely noticeable at all with Gsync.
I was hoping for better from the GTX960. I’ll hang on and see what new cards Nvidia brings or announces by June July for a Fall 2015 release. I don’t expect anything truly exciting before then.
P.S..Hello Jeremy..from a fellow Canadian 🙂
I also have a 780 with a
I also have a 780 with a monitor @1440 and couldn’t be happier with the performance I still get. ill be waiting to see what AMD and NVIDIA release in the next year or two.
Thanks … today is just
Thanks … today is just going awesome
Interesting comparison, but I
Interesting comparison, but I think if you are looking for a new graphics card to play on a 2k+ panel, then one would be better buying the GTX 970. I still think if you have an GTX 770 that getting the GTX960 would still be a downgrade. The GTX 960 is targeted at 1080P panel gamers, and I think is where it should stay at. I happen to be a 1080P gamer, and even though the 960 looks like a great card, it still isn’t enough to convince me to upgrade from my MSI GTX 660Ti card. I wonder if Nvidia will do at Ti treatment to the 960?
As a fellow GTX660ti @ 1080p
As a fellow GTX660ti @ 1080p gamer, I don’t see any point for upgrading yet.
Though saying that, when the 980ti comes out, assuming it drops the GTX970 price it might be an ideal time to upgrade (and get a decent monitor).
Nice to know someone with the
Nice to know someone with the same GPU feels like I do! 🙂
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Brilliant example
THEY ARE ON
Brilliant example
THEY ARE ON SAME PERFORMANCE LEVEL:
GTX 960
128-bit, 2GB, made of 2,94 B transistors, 120W
280X
384-bit, 3GB, made of 4,31 B transistors, 250W
This is ridiculous
FACE IT, AMD GPU technology is ANCENT
And AMD CPU technology is nonexistent
what we can say more
what we can say more 280X/7970GHz was an old technology, and it’s almost 2.5 years old…
and gtx 960 still behind 280x at raw performance?
ridikulus…
The 280 is supposed to
The 280 is supposed to compete with the 770. With that said for a 960 to be close it a 280 and surpass it in some games, i think the 960 is doing pretty well.
Lithium your post is the
Lithium your post is the brilliant example of how retarded fanboys are. Your comment is ancient since it’s been used by so many people over the last 25 years.
Once the new AMD graphic cards come out say: “Nvidia GPU technology is Ancient”.
Oh wait nevermind Nvidia PhysX isn’t Nvidia technology, they’ve bought it.
With that line of
With that line of reasoning…
Radeon graphics cards are not AMD technology, they bought it from ATI.
I hope AMDs next gen card is great because the graphics division is the only thing keeping the company afloat. And this is coming from someone who only supports team green.
It’s just a little to
It’s just a little to expensive to succeed in my opinion. UNLESSSSSS…….
So I live in the $150 dolor GPU world, on almost every system I build for anyone young who wants to game (with one or 2 exceptions) $150 is about how much people (in my circle) want to spend on a GPU, this IS the new king of 1080p but it’s priced WAY over the other 1080p aimed cards.
BUTTTTTTTT then there is the power of discount. If when shopping for a new gpu for a new rig for a friend, IF I were to see a 960 for 25% off, then it would be an instant purchase. If they are overpricing it to allow for huge sales and discounts while still maintaing a profit, than this card could be everywhere in a year or so, HOWEVER in the past that’s not nVidia’s way of doing things. Time will tell.
Just ordered one in. I was
Just ordered one in. I was hoping to hold out on a GPU upgrade for another couple of months to see if a 960ti shows up, but my old 560ti finally conked out on me last night so a new card is needed posthaste (and a 970 is just a bit too pricey for my budget right now). Realistically I don’t see myself upgrading my current primary monitor (1680×1050/120hz/3D Vision) anytime soon anyway, but still I would have liked even just a 4GB option to make it marginally more future-proof knowing games targeting the consoles will generally have heftier vRAM requirements going forward…
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I think the price of this MSI GTX 960 GAMING 2G graphics card is still good for me, but I don’t know if there is a big difference in performance compared to the standard R9 280 or 280x/290. If the difference is not big, I think I will buy it.boy name generator