Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 Slide Deck Revealed - Marketed as 'Overclocker's Dream' with Upto 1.5Ghz Clocks

The slidedeck of the Geforce GTX 960 was partially leaked past Videocardz.com earlier today. While it more often than not serves as confirmation for the leaked specs of the GTX 960, it does tell us most the high overclocking potential of the card with clocks approaching 1.5 Ghz, something that might help offset the relatively weak performance of the GM206 die. gtx 960 reference shroud

Slides Confirms Leaked Specs of the GTX 960 - 1024 CUDA Cores, 128 Bit Bus and 2GB of GDDR5 Memory

We have been telling yous for the past month about the upcoming Jan 22nd Event and the leaked slide deck confirms this every bit well. The GTX 960 is going to be the mid-tier king and will be placed just beneath the 970 in Green's lineup. The confirmed specifications (reference) are given below. Now here is the cool thing, the card is really clocked at a meager 1127 Mhz which volition effect in abysmal performance out of the box. Only if discussion is to exist believed then this card can actually almost the 1.5Ghz marker making it gain a ridiculously big chunk in functioning through sheer overclock.

Specifications Comparing Tabular array
WCCFTech	GeForce GTX 980	GeForce GTX 970	GeForce GTX 960	GeForce GTX 760
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Kepler
GPU	GM204	GM204	GM206	GK104
CUDA cores	2048	1664	1024	1152
Texture Units	128	104	64	96
Raster Devices	64	64	32	32
Clock Speed	1126/1216 MHz	1051/1178 MHz	1127/1178 MHz	900/1033 Mhz
Memory Autobus	256-chip	256-flake	128-bit	256-bit*
Amount of retention	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	2-4 GB GDDR5	ii-4 GB GDDR5
Memory Frequency	7010 MHz	7010 MHz	7010 MHz	6008 Mhz
Memory Bandwidth	224 GB / due south	224 GB / s	112 GB/Due south	192.3 GB/southward
TDP	165W	147W	120W	170W
Toll	$549 US	$329 Us	TBC	$249

*In that location is a 192-bit version of the menu too.

Now the remainder of the slides don't really offer much detail except the usual marketing stuff. As we all know Maxwell architecture is twice as ability efficient equally before while staying on the aforementioned node. Nvidia is likewise adopting the buzz-phrase of 1080p Gaming at 60fps, the coveted gilded standard in the console industry. The just particularly interesting slide given is the fact that they mention it as an 'Overclocker'south Dream' - a reference to the GTX 960's huge overclocking ability no doubt.

Slide-deck courtesy of Videocardz.com

1 of the biggest issues this card will face is any resolution college than 1080p. Even though this menu was designed for 1080p, the tiny bus width (128 bit) will not allow it to be a success fifty-fifty at reasonable resolutions such as 1440p. And that is later on accounting for Maxwell's innovative color compression technologies. Without those, I am certain it would not have been able to hitting 1080p properly either. The 960 has one-half the bandwidth of the GTX 970 and significantly less than the GTX 760. According to the specifications, the 960 volition outperform the 760 at lower resolutions including 1080p while performing at par or less than the 760 on higher resolutions depending on make/model/clocks.