NVIDIA allegedly preparing the GTX 960 Ti to fill gap between GTX 960 and GTX 970

Benchlife.info has a fairly reliable track record when it comes to hardware related leaks, so we’re pretty excited by their latest report that NVIDIA is preparing to launch the GTX 960 Ti.

The card, they allege, is aimed at filling the price gap between the GTX 960 and GTX 970, a gap that AMD has appointed their R9 380X to fill – like NVIDIA was going to let AMD fill a gap in their own range of cards.

When you look at the price difference between the average GTX 970 (around R7, 000 courtesy of the terribly weak Rand) and GTX 960 (just over R3, 000), the GTX 960 Ti certainly makes a lot of sense.

The GTX 970 is a much better card than the GTX 960, but it costs a heck of a lot more, more than many can afford.

AMD’s new R9 380X, however, sits comfortably in that price gap. In fact, you can pick up the overlocked PowerColor R9 280X Myst. Edition for just R3, 999 at Wootware if you’re willing to pre-order it.

As far as specs are concerned, nothing is confirmed but we’re willing to bet they’re going to rebrand the GTX 960 OEM version as the GTX 960 Ti.

The OEM version of the GTX 960 actually has more CUDA cores than the currently available consumer-grade GTX 960, so it’s fairly close to being a “Ti” card already – it even sports an additional 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM.

All it needs is an improved clock speed and it’s ready to go. That said, they may well have another plan in mind, like using 11 SMMs (rather than the 10 on the GTX 960 OEM) giving it 1408 CUDA cores, and a significant performance advantage over the standard GTX 960 as a result.

Only time and an official confirmation will tell.