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Rumor: NVidia GTX 960 Specs & Release Date

Posted on December 29, 2014

The international Consumer Electronics Show kicks off next week in Las Vegas, NV. As part of our annual attendance, we book dozens of meetings in advance with major manufacturers and parts vendors; nVidia, AMD, and Intel are almost always our staples. This time, however, nVidia wasn't booking GeForce meetings and noted that it will be handling things a little differently this year.

Recent rumors stemming from Chinese website Hermitage Akihabara coincide with nVidia's odd skip of CES, claiming that the GTX 960 is expected for announcement in mid-to-late January, 2015.

Rumored specifications of the GTX 960 mention 2GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus. Although these specs aren't necessarily stunning, it's worth noting that modern compression techniques and other hardware optimizations (including +40% more powerful cores over Kepler) means 128-bit gets us a lot further than it used to. Still, it's not exactly flooring. The rumored price point is ~$210, making for large gaps between the 960, 970, and 980. We still anticipate some sort of 960 or 970 Ti-version to fill one of those gaps.

The new chip is rumored to be the GM206, falling in-line with usual naming conventions (Maxwell uses GM204).

More information soon.

- Steve "Lelldorianx" Burke.