Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 Review: feat. Asus

January 22, 2015 | 14:56

Tags: #best-gtx-960 #directcu-ii #gm206 #gtx-960 #maxwell #strix

Companies: #asus #nvidia

BioShock Infinite

Publisher: 2K

From our Bioshock Infinite review :

"Your character Booker’s trip to Columbia is in the interest of retrieving a girl, Elizabeth, from captivity. It’s imperative that you find her so that you can clear a pile of debts, but it’s increasingly clear as your time in columbia continues that this isn’t a simple hero's tale. Elizabeth has the power to control “tears in reality" that are popping up all over the city."

"It’s an adult, thoughtful and compelling work that shames many (if not most) other attempts in the medium. Bioshock Infinite is an incredibly good video game. It might be one of the best.

We use the handy in-built benchmarking tool to run a timedemo from two sections near the start of the game. However, we've found the game-generated results to be unreliable, so use FRAPS to record the frame rate over a 40 second sequence of gameplay during the second test. The results taken are an average of three repeated tests.

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BioShock Infinite

1,920 x 1,080, Ultra Detail with DOF

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 260X 2GB
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BioShock Infinite

2,560 x 1,440, Ultra Detail with DOF

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 260X 2GB
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Discuss this in the forums

Posted by GuilleAcoustic - Thu Jan 22 2015 14:08

Damn, bought a GTX770 in June ... completly lost all its value in a few month.

Posted by xaser04 - Thu Jan 22 2015 14:10

Barely faster than a GTX760 yet costs more (based on OCUK's price range).

The only thing going for this is the reduced power consumption but realistically a 760 wasn't exactly a power hog in the first place. The 960 simple uses less (only at load though).

On a more positive note the underlying isolated performance GPU bodes well for mid - high end gaming laptops.

Posted by Dogbert666 - Thu Jan 22 2015 14:14

xaser04
Barely faster than a GTX760
It's probably not faster - I reckon their speeds are near identical. As mentioned, this is an overclocked SKU, but results for the 760 are reference.

Posted by xaser04 - Thu Jan 22 2015 14:47

Dogbert666
xaser04
Barely faster than a GTX760
It's probably not faster - I reckon their speeds are near identical. As mentioned, this is an overclocked SKU, but results for the 760 are reference.
That is a valid point. I had made the assumption that the 960 results shown were normalised to be a reference proxy (should be two sets of results really).

So only power consumption going for it then....
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