NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Allegedly Postponed To Q1 2022 Due To Strong GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 Sales

NVIDIA'southward adjacent generation budget-friendly GeForce GTX 960 graphics card may have been postponed to Q1 2022 as reported by GDM.OR.JP. The Japanese based retailers which are highly accurate with dates and specification of upcoming products have revealed that due to stiff sales for the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970, both cards with remain the flagship GeForce 900 serial products for this yr while the more than budget friendly and sub-$300 US cards will hit the market next year.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Allegedly Postponed To Q1 2022

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 was initially rumored to launch in October 2022 merely as explained higher up, the bill of fare will now exist hitting the market along with several other Maxwell based parts in Q1 2022. At that place's still no official confirmation regarding this and nosotros know there won't be any from NVIDIA on unreleased products and nosotros will have to await and dig out the data ourselves but as far as specifications go, we did a assay of the some of the possible scenarios which NVIDIA can adopt for the GeForce GTX 960.

Simply a few hours ago, NVIDIA introduced their GeForce 900M series "Maxwell" mobility lineup which include two new flagship parts later on the 3-Twelvemonth stay of the previous Kepler based GK104 parts. The GeForce GTX 980M and GeForce GTX 970M are the new flagships in the market powering a slew of loftier-end to premium notebook devices across the market. This is the single and near biggest update which has come to the mobility marketplace in some time since both team NVIDIA and team AMD have been releasing rebrands of their Pitcairn and Kepler GK 104 parts since the last iii years hence you might be looking at bigger than normal functioning updates.

Just the GeForce GTX 900M series have given us a hint at what could be the future of the desktop based sub-$300 parts. Every bit noted in the specifications, the GeForce GTX 980M features 1536 cores with 96 TMUs, 64 ROPs and a 256-bit bus clocked at 1038 MHz for the core and 5.0 GHz (effective) for retentivity. The 2nd chip is more cut down with 1280 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs and a 192-flake passenger vehicle clocked at 924 MHz for core and 5.0 GHz (effective) clock for memory. Now this goes off to prove that Maxwell has a lot of room for more SKUs and NVIDIA won't even have to rely on the GM206 bit for the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card. Merely here'due south the bargain, at that place are two cutting down parts beneath the GTX 970, one with 1536 cores and the other with 1280 cores. And to make information technology spicy, the GTX 970 also has two SM divergence between the faster GeForce GTX 980. Summing upwards the SMs, we have the GTX 970M with 10 SM units enabled, GTX 980M with 12, GTX 970 with 13 and GTX 980 with 16 SM units enabled.

Now this part is entirely speculation just from what I tin see and recollect, the Kepler generation had ii *60 parts. The GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 660 Ti. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti had the GK104 core while the GTX 660 had the GK106 core. Now this was a huge difference between the cards. Both cards relied on a 192-bit bus interface with 3 GB VRAM. This fourth dimension we might come across ane or even 2 cards, the GTX 960 Ti and GTX 960. The price for the faster GeForce GTX 960 will almost certainly be $249 US if there are two parts while the other would cost effectually $199 - $229 US. If there are two cards, then we can see the same configuration as the mobile parts for each card. The faster one featuring 1536 cores and a 256-bit bus followed by the slower and cheaper one featuring 1280 cores and 192-flake bus. But the difficult part is what if in that location's only i carte du jour? Then we might peradventure be looking at the 192-flake solution. NVIDIA does accept a habit of releasing cutting downwardly upkeep cards in the market and this might be a repeat since the GTX 970 was two SMs cut from the flagship Maxwell and the 960 might be a similar cutting down version.

We didn't ostend anything just only pointed at a few things you can expect to come. The menu looks like a Q1 2022 launch and whether or not its true, will exist found out this month. To keep things heated upwardly in the graphics industry, AMD might have an outcome planned for this week as indicated by their argument on Twitter only let'due south run across if its related to the cost cut that was instated a few days ago or something more than that.

NVIDIA GeForce 900M Mobility Maxwell:

Model	GTX 980M	GTX 970M	GTX 880M	GTX 870M
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell	Kepler	Kepler
GPU	GM204	GM204	GK104	GK104
CUDA cores	1536	1280	1536	1344
Texture Units	96	80	128	120
Raster Devices	64	48	32	24
Clock Speed	1038 MHz	924 MHz	954 MHz	941 MHz
Memory Bus	256-chip	192-bit	256-chip	192-flake
Amount of memory	viii.4 GB GDDR5	iii.6 GB GDDR5	8.4 GB GDDR5	3.six GB GDDR5
Memory Frequency	5000 MHz	5000 MHz	5000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	160 GB / s	120 GB / s	160 GB / south	120 GB / southward

Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-allegedly-postponed-q1-2015-due-strong-geforce-gtx-980-gtx-970-sales/

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