Nvidia turns Geforce GTX 960 into Christmas shopping

In a few days, it’s time for the Maxwell architecture to find its way into the upper performance segment. First out are the Geforce GTX 980 and GTX 970, which are believed to stay somewhere around the current GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti on the performance ladder. However, these models will only be the first in the GTX 900 series.

Now Japanese Hermitage Akihabara reports that Nvidia is preparing another model in the performance class. This is a Geforce GTX 960, which is expected to be based on a stripped-down variant of the GM204 graphics circuit. No details about the specifications are available, but one possibility is that it gets 2 GB of graphics memory instead of 4 GB as its more expensive cousins.

The price tag for graphics cards is believed to be around $ 300, possibly slightly lower. That would put it as a direct competitor to the AMD Radeon R9 285 and the not yet launched R9 285X, which will be based on the full-scale graphics circuit Tonga.

The launch of the Geforce GTX 980 and GTX 970 takes place on September 19 and the less expensive model is expected to wait until mid or late October.