GTX 560 vs 960

[♦Pieramyd]

Would a 960 be a significant upgrade from a 560 or no?

[iza]

Yes. And you better get a 970, i think the 960 isn't a good investment.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Nvidia said that GTX 960 was pretty much made as upgrade for people with old GTX 550, 560, 650 cards.
If you can afford it the GTX 970 is much more powerful card though, basicly two GTX 960.

[♦Pieramyd]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Nvidia said that GTX 960 was pretty much made as upgrade for people with old GTX 550, 560, 650 cards.
If you can afford it the GTX 970 is much more powerful card though, basicly two GTX 960.

But I hear it has 512mb of slow VRAM! :c

[iza]

Originally posted by BDX777 #MGTOW:

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Nvidia said that GTX 960 was pretty much made as upgrade for people with old GTX 550, 560, 650 cards.
If you can afford it the GTX 970 is much more powerful card though, basicly two GTX 960.

But I hear it has 512mb of slow VRAM! :c

And still 100 times better than your potato. :D

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by BDX777 #MGTOW:

But I hear it has 512mb of slow VRAM! :c

Yep, but it doesnt matter much when you use 1080p monitor, majority of games wont go over 3.5 Gb VRAM use anyway at that resolution and if few of them go then you can simply tweak the graphics settings a little to drop it below 3.5 Gb use.

[conatser30]

I have the gtx 960, Its a solid card, but if I had to do it over, I would have spent the extra for the 970. I was on kinda a tight budget. I run a 24 inch 1080p monitor though. You deffently wouldn't want a 960 if you game at 1440. A lot of it depends on what kind of games you want to run also. I play alot of torchlight, divinity, wasteland 2 kinda stuff mostly so the 960 blast through that ♥♥♥♥ just fine. If you want to run like far cry 4 or something don't waste your money on a 960.

[♦Pieramyd]

Originally posted by Shaw:

Originally posted by BDX777 #MGTOW:

But I hear it has 512mb of slow VRAM! :c

And still 100 times better than your potato. :D

How does it run Watch_Dogs? Can it handle 2560x1440? Would it be bottlenecked by an Intel i7 2600k CPU?

[iza]

1) No PC can run Watch_Dogs at it's maximum. Bad optimized. But should be incredible high.
2) Easily.
3) No. I've a GTX780Ti OC by GIGABYTE which is more powerful than a GTX970 and my CPU is an Intel i7-3770k 4,0GHz OC.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Originally posted by BDX777 #MGTOW:

But I hear it has 512mb of slow VRAM! :c

Yep, but it doesnt matter much when you use 1080p monitor, majority of games wont go over 3.5 Gb VRAM use anyway at that resolution and if few of them go then you can simply tweak the graphics settings a little to drop it below 3.5 Gb use.

Unfortunately you are very VERY wrong.

It will happen and does happen in 1080p and is not a good card for future games. Over $350 for a card you have to "lower the settings on because it has broken memory" is not worth it. Especially with DSR or 120hz+ gaming monitors, or multi monitor setups. It is limiting future options and will be left in the dust by the working memory cards coming out this year with 6GB+ of VRAM "supposedly" around the same price point of the current 970s.

In my own tests of the 970s the problems that happen in actual gameplay scenarios can be everything from blackscreen crashes that require full system restarts, spikes in framerate and stutter and lag, and many driver crashes, usually the moment a game requests more than 3.4-3.5GB. Saw this happen in the Batman Arkham series, Farcry 3 and 4, Shadows of mordor, Assassins creed unity, texture modded skyrim, to name a few.

If settings are too high for most "single memory" VRAM setups they will have problems from the onset till settings are adjusted to not go over what they can handle, then they run fine. The 970 on the other hand tells games it has 4GB, but when games try to use all 4GB they only get 7/8ths of it, causing the stutters and crashes and scuh, so games will run beautifully right up till they need the full 4GB in which case the games and drivers start to go nuts switching back and forth between the good fast memory and the slower bit of memory. So it is essentially a 3.5GB card as far as most games are concerned.