is no suspense. After NVIDIA GeForce GTX980/GTX970 attracted N fans to climax again and again, after a fever, it was time to calm down and consider the feelings of more people. Every generation of NVIDIA "X60" has always been responsible for poking players who are not very plump and pragmatic. This time, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 is no exception, but the standard video memory configuration is only 128bit. 2GB. The setting of GDDR5 is unacceptable. You should know that the width of the video memory bit has reached 256bit. This time, what medicine is sold in the NVIDIA GeForce GTX960?
Don't think that 2GB is easy to bully
When it comes to CUDA core 1024, basic frequency 1127MHz, video memory configuration 128bit 2GB GDDR5 parameters, I'm afraid many performance controllers will be unhappy again. But please remember that cars with extremely high power may not be good in actual performance. The core performance of GM206 should be explained by facts. This time we built the current mainstream PC platform, using EVGA GeForce GTX960 as the protagonist, and using ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 as the comparison. The detailed configuration is as follows:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770 Haswell @3.4GHz
Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 GAMING
Memory: AVEXIR DDR3 1600 4GB x 2
Hard disk: SANDISK X110 128GB
Power supply: HighPower EP-550S 550W
First of all, the 3DMark Professional Edition that everyone likes is the favorite 3DMark Professional Edition. This time we bypassed the preheating and went straight to the topic. Using the Fire Strike Extreme scenario that evaluates the ultimate performance of the PC, the NVIDIA graphics card driver version is 347.25. On the same PC platform, GTX760 won 2627 points, while the performance of GTX960 was quite eye-catching, winning 3422 points, and the actual performance was improved by more than 30%.
is different from the running score Tianzun like GTX980/GTX970. Students who use GTX960 will pay more attention to its performance in the game, so we prioritized the protagonist Mitchell of Activision's "Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare" to participate in the Detroit mission scene. All special effects are turned on to the highest, the rendering resolution is 1920x1080, turn off vertical synchronization, FXAA anti-aliasing, and turn off super sampling. The average frame count of GTX760 is around 80fps, while the GTX960 can be stable at around 105fps.
Also, we have also introduced Benchmark of the popular online games "Final Fantasy 14" and "Monster Hunter Online" as reference. The resolution of "Monster Hunter Online" is 1920x1080, anti-aliasing is turned on to 4x MSAA, and full screen mode is turned on. GTX960 scored 8160 points, with an average frame rate of 37.3fps and a minimum frame rate of 21.7fps. The GTX760 score is 7406 under the same settings, with an average of 33.8fps and a minimum of 17.6fps.
"Final Fantasy 14" Benchmark uses cute and cute cat as the heroine of the running score. The GTX760 scores 6135, while the GTX960 can reach 7237.
Although the paper surface of GTX960 is not very good in terms of parameters, its comprehensive performance is still 20%-30% higher than that of GTX760. Thanks to engineers' optimization of video memory usage, through the Memory Compression video memory compression technology algorithm optimization, duplicate materials and information will be compressed and stored, thereby improving video memory utilization.
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128bit video memory bit width is actually more like a show-off by NVIDIA. The improved TDCC (Third generation Delta Clolr Compression) technology can compress pixel information of the same color, which can cause an average data volume of more than 20% to decrease according to the situation, and achieve the purpose of increasing the equivalent bandwidth through saving means. In fact, in the GM206 core data officially listed by NVIDIA, the data of 9.3Gbps equivalent memory speed is proudly given. You should know that the physical memory speed of GTX960 is 7Gbps, which shows that the improvement is huge, which is completely a victory for engineers in algorithms.
can imagine the GTX960 as a turbocharged engine, and even a four-cylinder small displacement can still burst out with many possibilities. At the same time, the lower specifications make the power consumption of the graphics card more efficient. Please forget about the 8pin power interface and TDP 180W on the standard GTX760. The TDP of the GTX960 is only 120W. The 6pin power interface proves that the GTX960's appetite is really small.
Even so, the output of the standard version of GTX960 has not shrunk. Taking this EVGA GeForce GTX960 as an example, the backplane has prepared an HDMI, 3 DisplayPorts and 1 DVI-I interface to achieve daily multi-screen output without any pressure.
You will soon find that the benefits of low power consumption are quite obvious. For multiplayer online battle games like League of Legends and DOTA2, it is not worth mentioning in front of GTX960. In fact, we used League of Legends for about 1 hour to play the game. The GTX960 graphics card fan did not rotate at all. At an environment of 23 degrees Celsius, the graphics card temperature was controlled at around 40 degrees Celsius. NVIDIA thoughtfully achieved the effect of reducing PC noise by controlling the fan. This alone can easily please students who are more demanding in details.
NVIDIA calls GTX960 the graphics card with the highest energy consumption ratio in the Maxwell camp. Such confidence has undoubtedly been shown in actual games. Low power consumption also brings more possibilities for overclocking. For example, EVGA officially provides the EVGA Precision X16 overclocking tool. In addition to being found on the official website, it can also be downloaded on the game platform Steam. The first overclocking can even light up the achievements in Steam. Now you can intuitively see the GTX960's operation and GPU temperature in the EVGA Precision X16, and then drag the GPU CLOCK OFFSET and MEN CLOCK OFFSET progress bars to improve the performance of the GTX960, free and intuitive, and it will be very easy to get started regardless of whether you have overclocking or not.
If one GTX960 is not satisfactory, you can prepare another GTX960. NVIDIA has left an SLI interface for the GTX960. Even if the two graphics cards operate at full capacity, the power consumption is not as good as the AMD R9 290X.
please female anchor
NVIDIA launched GTX960 obviously with preparation. In addition to the MFAA ultra-high-performance anti-aliasing on GTX980 and GTX970 and the DSR dynamic super resolution technology that was unreservedly placed on GTX960, ShadowPlay in NVIDIA GeForce Experience will now become easier to please female anchors. Starting from GTX960, anchors can finally forget the Twitch that is not good for domestic networks and directly use localized video online live broadcast software like Huya Live Assistant. After
recognizes GTX960, NVIDIA hardware video decoding will appear.
is the same as ShadowPlay principle. In the new version of online live broadcast software, the graphics card model of the PC will be directly identified, and the NVIDIA hardware encoding function is enabled by setting the NVIDIA hardware encoding function, and no longer need to prepare a powerful CPU for video recording. And this set of NVIDIA hard decoding functions are also applicable in the GeForce 900 series, 700 series and 600 series. The discovery of conscience allows older machines to further improve the smoothness of the game without upgrading the equipment. Taking the platform we run as an example, even if the special effects of "League of Legends" are fully turned on, the CPU usage rate is only around 31%, which is more than enough to cope.
Please forget the parameters, the key point is to look at the efficacy
According to NVIDIA statistics, humans contributed 179 million hours to online game video viewing in 2014, and the number of games released on PC is still far higher than games on other console platforms. Even though NVIDIA continues to explore new fields, it has not forgotten to continue to carry forward the game graphics card. NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 is a good example. It is the most cost-effective GTX graphics card at present. Using the efforts of engineers in algorithms, paper references are no longer so meaningful, but you cannot deny that a piece of GTX960 can already ensure that you can play happily in most games.
Obviously, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 focuses on efficacy. It cures the problem of ShadowPlay's poor quality in China, liberates the CPU, brings lower power consumption and even silent design, and the price of 1,499 yuan soft girl coins is much more intimate than those high-end graphics cards that start at a price of several thousand yuan. If you just want to be a player quietly and are interested in learning to record game videos by Director Ao, it is time to consider buying an NVIDIA GeForce GTX960.
