NVIDIA GTX 960
Nvidia Corp.’s forthcoming performance-mainstream graphics card – GeForce GTX 960 – will not only utilise rather high-performance GM204 graphics processor, but will also retain 256-bit memory bus and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, which will likely result in high performance in high resolutions.
According to Zauba.com database, which monitors imports and exports to and from India, a sample of the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card has 256-bit memory bus and 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6GHz. The graphics processor of the GTX 960 sample is clocked at 933MHz, according to the filing.
We know very little about the GTX 960 other than that t will be released in October. However from the GTX 980 and GTX 970 we can deduct many possible configurations for the card.
There are two possibilities for GTX 960. The first is that it could feature a new GPU, GM206. The second possibility is that it could feature the same GM204 GPU but with even more disabled SMMs and possibly even a smaller memory interface.
There are two possibilities for GTX 960. The first is that it could feature a new GPU, GM206. The second possibility is that it could feature the same GM204 GPU but with even more disabled SMMs and possibly even a smaller memory interface.
Personally I’m not favoring any particular option of the two over the other. There are leaks that support both possibilities. The first possibility is supported by the fact that we know GM206 taped out in April along side GM204. However Videocardz also claims that Nvidia will release 4 SKUs with the GM204 GPU and we’ve only seen two so far. THe GTX 980 and GTX 970.
GM204 is a completely new die and thus has an entirely new floorplan. Many GM204 cores will come out the other end of the manufacturing process with defects. Until all the kinks are worked out that is. The defective areas of the die are then disabled and the chip is sold. The GTX 970 has three SMM units disabled due to this reason, the R9 290 has 4 compute units disabled. Everyone in the industry does this, including Intel.
GM204 is a completely new die and thus has an entirely new floorplan. Many GM204 cores will come out the other end of the manufacturing process with defects. Until all the kinks are worked out that is. The defective areas of the die are then disabled and the chip is sold. The GTX 970 has three SMM units disabled due to this reason, the R9 290 has 4 compute units disabled. Everyone in the industry does this, including Intel.
It usually takes between three to six months from the beginning of volume production to fix most manufacturing kinks and drive yield considerably up. GPUs usually take 3 months to make it from the fab to the store shelves. Nvidia launched Maxwell just two weeks ago so volume production couldn’t have began earlier than April. Which interestingly enough is when both GM204 and GM206 reportedly have been taped out. So how would a GM204 based GTX 960 look ?
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