{"id":83925,"date":"2015-11-26T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83925"},"modified":"2015-11-26T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:14:04","slug":"nvidia-allegedly-preparing-the-gtx-960-ti-to-fill-gap-between-gtx-960-and-gtx-970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83925-nvidia-allegedly-preparing-the-gtx-960-ti-to-fill-gap-between-gtx-960-and-gtx-970","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA allegedly preparing the GTX 960 Ti to fill gap between GTX 960 and GTX 970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benchlife.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benchlife.info<\/a> has a fairly reliable track record when it comes to hardware related leaks, so we\u2019re pretty excited by their <a href=\"https:\/\/benchlife.info\/nvidia-postpone-geforce-gtx-960-ti-or-geforce-gtx-950-ti-11232015\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest report<\/a> that NVIDIA is preparing to launch the GTX 960 Ti.<\/p>\n<p>The card, they allege, is aimed at filling the price gap between the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/71593-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-sa-price-roundup-performance.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTX 960<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/68905-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-gtx-970-sa-price-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTX 970<\/a>, a gap that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83667-amd-unveils-radeon-r9-380x-for-those-who-cant-quite-afford-a-gtx-970.html\" target=\"_blank\">AMD has appointed their R9 380X to fill<\/a> \u2013 like NVIDIA was going to let AMD fill a gap in their own range of cards.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at the price difference between the average GTX 970 (around <strong>R7, 000 <\/strong>courtesy of the terribly weak Rand) and GTX 960 (just over <strong>R3, 000<\/strong>), the GTX 960 Ti certainly makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>AMD\u2019s new R9\u00a0380X, however, sits comfortably in that price gap. In fact, you can pick up the overlocked PowerColor R9\u00a0280X Myst. Edition for just <strong>R3, 999<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wootware.co.za\/powercolor-axr9-380x-4gbd5-ppdhe-pcs-myst-edition-radeon-r9-380x-4gb-256-bit-gddr5-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wootware<\/a> if you\u2019re willing to pre-order it.<\/p>\n<p>As far as specs are concerned, nothing is confirmed but we\u2019re willing to bet they\u2019re going to rebrand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geforce.com\/hardware\/desktop-gpus\/geforce-gtx-960-oem\/specifications\" target=\"_blank\">GTX 960 OEM version<\/a> as the GTX 960 Ti.<\/p>\n<p>The OEM version of the GTX 960 actually has more CUDA cores than the currently available consumer-grade GTX 960, so it\u2019s fairly close to being a \u201cTi\u201d card already \u2013 it even sports an additional 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM.<\/p>\n<p>All it needs is an improved clock speed and it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Only time and an official confirmation will tell.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More GPU news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83827-amds-radeon-software-crimson-edition-arrives-and-nvidia-feels-a-disturbance-in-the-force.html\">AMD\u2019s Radeon Software Crimson Edition arrives, and NVIDIA feels a disturbance in the force<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83667-amd-unveils-radeon-r9-380x-for-those-who-cant-quite-afford-a-gtx-970.html\">AMD unveils Radeon R9 380X: for those who can\u2019t quite afford a GTX 970<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83605-nvidia-confirms-pascal-has-16gb-of-hbm2-memory-and-1tbs-bandwidth.html\">NVIDIA confirms Pascal has 16GB of HBM2 memory and 1TB\/s bandwidth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83557-nvidias-pascal-gpus-to-assist-in-hurricane-tracking.html\">NVIDIA\u2019s Pascal GPUs to assist in hurricane tracking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like NVIDIA was going to let AMD fill a gap in their own range of cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":83927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47,6292,16499,1085,14074,1969,15825],"class_list":["post-83925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-card","tag-gtx-960-ti","tag-hardware-2","tag-maxwell-2","tag-news-2","tag-r9-380x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}