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Nvidia geforce gtx 960m9/28/2023 While Nvidia’s GTX 960 reference clocks stand at 1126MHz stock and 1178MHz boost, the Asus Strix speeds along at 1253MHz/1317MHz out of the box the EVGA SSC powers along at 1279MHz/1342MHz. Both cards ran extremely quietly even when the fans were whirring, almost to the point of eeriness.īoth cards also feature impressively hefty overclocks out of the box. The Asus Strix topped out at 58 C in our tests, and that was only after applying a hefty overclock and running the Furmark benchmark, which Nvidia’s press materials call a “power virus.” The EVGA SSC hit max temperatures of around 75 C under extreme duress, but ran far cooler in normal scenarios. And when you combine Maxwell’s efficiency with the custom aftermarket cooling solutions found in these cards, you won’t hit those temps often in more casual or modest games, like League of Legends, The Walking Dead, and many indie or 4x strategy games. Asus and EVGA’s cards don’t even activate their fans until temperatures hit 55 C and 60 C, respectively. Remember I mentioned how coolly and efficiently the Maxwell architecture lets these new Nvidia cards run? Third-party graphics card makers are already putting that efficiency to tremendous use. The port selection on the Asus Strix is bog-standard for a GTX 960. We reviewed two GTX 960 samples: The Asus Strix with DirectCU II cooling and EVGA’s GTX 960 SuperSC (SSC) edition with ACX 2.0+ cooling. Meet the Asus GTX 960 Strix and EVGA GTX 960 SSC MFAA’s rolling out in force to coincide with that: While the technology worked with only 20 or so games initially, it’s now supported by every DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 game that supports MSAA, with the exception of Dead Rising 3, Dragon Age 2, and Max Payne 3. While our benchmarks don’t leverage MFAA, as the technology isn’t compatible with AMD cards, Nvidia’s enabling the technology by default if you use the GeForce Experience app to automatically optimize your games. Testing has shown that compared to 4x MSAA, 4x MFAA delivers roughly the same level of visual fidelity at around 8- to 15-percent higher frame rates, depending on the title. MFAA delivers visuals on par with multi-sample anti-aliasing, but with far less of an impact on frame rates. Anti-aliasing smooths out visual jaggies in games, albeit with a performance cost. Nvidia’s Multi-Frame Anti-aliasing technology is getting a big shot in the arm with the release of the GTX 960, however. The Asus GTX 960 Strix, sans shroud, revealing the PCB in all its glory. But it can provide a visual boost without dragging frame rates into the pits for more modest titles, like World of Warcraft or League of Legends. Dynamic Super Resolution-which renders games at higher resolution than your monitor, then downsamples them to fit your monitor to improve visual fidelity-isn’t quite as useful on the GTX 960 as it was on the GTX 980, because the performance penalty hurts far more on a midrange card. the target use for this card.Īnd really, what do you expect for $200, anyway? Nevertheless, it would’ve been nice to see 3GB or 4GB of memory, or at least a wider memory bus to more effectively future-proof the card.īeyond the hardware, the GTX 960 boasts the same software tricks as its bigger 900-series brothers: the Voxel Global Illumination lighting technique, VR Direct, Dynamic Super Resolution, Multi-Frame Anti-aliasing, it’s all there. As such, the “lack” of memory bandwidth wasn’t an issue in our testing, and the limited RAM isn’t likely to be an issue when you’re gaming at 1080p, a.k.a. But Nvidia says that caching improvements in Maxwell, combined with the company’s third-generation delta color compression engine, help the GM206 GPU use its memory bandwidth far more effectively than its predecessor, the GM106 “Kepler” CUDA core. One other thing jumps out staring at the spec sheet: The GTX 960 features only 2GB of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit bus, which seems… paltry, to say the least. In reference form, the GTX 960 measures 9.5 inches long, taking up dual slots in your case and packing a dual-link DVI port, an HDMI 2.0 port, and a trio of DisplayPort connections.
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