Gigabyte now offers GeForce GTX 960 in 4GB versions

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Gigabyte now offers a GTX 960 available with 4 GB graphics memory. The larger frame buffer can be useful when playing at higher resolutions, or when playing with higher-resolution textures installed...

    Gigabyte now offers GeForce GTX 960 in 4GB versions
     
  2. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Undying - need to sync two servers time wise :) Deleted your post, feel free to posts again. Sorry about that.
     
  3. Undying

    Undying Ancient Guru

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    Hehe, no problem. That was strange bug, lol. :D

    Anyway, it just cant handle more than 1080p so 4GB Vram is just a waste. It will add 50$ more on current 960 price. Not a good deal.
     
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  4. BLEH!

    BLEH! Ancient Guru

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    Is there enough memory bus to handle 4GB???
     

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    Came here to ask that. Either they figured out how to widen the bus or the memory will be effectively 1/2 speed of the 2GB?
     
  6. PhazeDelta1

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    memory bus is 128-bit, same as the 2GB cards.
     
  7. Cave Waverider

    Cave Waverider Ancient Guru

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    Are the 4GB partitioned like the 970 or done properly?
     
  8. sykozis

    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    All they did was use higher capacity memory modules.
     
  9. FatBoyNL

    FatBoyNL Ancient Guru

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    Yes, there should be just one partition with slow VRAM ;)
     
  10. CrisanT

    CrisanT Guest

    Yea...

    I can remember the time when the GTX 460 launched. Everybody was thrilled about it, it was a true gaming card. Since then, no GTX x60 produced so much excitement...:3eyes:
     

  11. Embra

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    Sli option only as far as recommending over the 2 gb.
     
  12. tsunami231

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    128bit + 4gb of vram with band with of 126gb/s is just fail im my eyes then again the 960gtx in general is fail in my eyes my 660gtx has more bandwidth
     
  13. SilAntoine

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    I'd love to see a review for a 960 4GB SLI setup in 1440p.
    Might be a decent performance/price ratio (though I think they're probably too expensive atm).
     
  14. CalculuS

    CalculuS Ancient Guru

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    They'd be pretty limited anyway by that 128bit memory bus.

    Seriously a single 960 wouldn't be able to fill those 4GB.
     
  15. Agonist

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    That was the last good gtx X60 card launched. The 760 was a nice card tbh though. But wasnt much faster then the 660ti imho.
     

  16. Fender178

    Fender178 Ancient Guru

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    Not worth it because the 960 is far too weak to utilize 4gb. I can't even see why they did this. Plus a 960 is far too weak to even handle resolutions beyond 1080p.

    Even with 4gb the 960 will still be far too weak to be able to do 1440p. Plus 2 960s would equal a 970 with its partitioned vRAM can probably handle 1440p. So the performance/Price Ratio would be terrible considering you can get a 970 for 2 960s.
     
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  17. sykozis

    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    Filling the memory is actually the easy part. The GTX960 would have a problem processing all the data stored in memory.
     
  18. Anarion

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    Yep. Filling is not a problem but processing all that data at decent speed is. Though, it's not usually necessary to access all that data at once so having more VRAM for cache is not a bad thing.
     
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  19. Cryio

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    Well now, this thing alone makes this card more interesting than the 280/285. This is a 900p/1080p card for sure. Those 4 GBs of VRAM are just for textures and assets. This is a very good card for future proofing and if prices are right, absolutely a smart buy for SLI.

    So sad there is not one single 4 GB version R9 285 on the market.
     
  20. sykozis

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    The GTX960 lacks the processing power to be even remotely "future proof".....
     

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