QOTW: How much would you pay for a GeForce GTX 960?

[pastymuncher]

I would say £130-150. Most of the cards are overpriced these days, especially Nvidia's range.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

GTX960 pricing revealed:

http://wccftech.com/asus-zotac-evga-gtx-960s-pictured/

$250 to $300.

At current exchange rates that's around £160 to £200.

Hopefully its down to wacky pre-order pricing.

You could get GTX970 cards for as low as £240 IIRC.

Edit!!

Supposedly $200 according to this:

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-msrp-200/

That would be around £130.

[Satyapal]

Hmmm...£120-150 would be good
Coz most of us can buy them

[MustardCutter]

GTX960 pricing revealed:

http://wccftech.com/asus-zotac-evga-gtx-960s-pictured/

$250 to $300.

At current exchange rates that's around £160 to £200.

Hopefully its down to wacky pre-order pricing.

You could get GTX970 cards for as low as £240 IIRC.

Edit!!

Supposedly $200 according to this:

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-msrp-200/

That would be around £130.

The problem is we never see a straight exchange rate USD to GBP conversion for our prices in the UK. The price in £ is often not much lower than the price in $. I reckon they'll be around the £200 mark.

[krazy_olie]

Hmm, the price of "mid range" cards has definitely gone up. I would expect ~180->210 sort of range.

This upper mid range used to be where the value is at for nVidia but it may end up being that the 970 is better bang for buck, if you can lay out for it.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

GTX960 performance previewed:

http://videocardz.com/54401/nvidia-l...eforce-gtx-960

A pre-overclocked card with a 10% overclock was used and its a bit faster than a GTX760 and consumes a bit less power.

Edit!!

Some overclocked results from another site.

http://cdn3.wccftech.com/wp-content/...GTX-960-OC.jpg



The GTX660 results need to be taken with a pinch of salt as the GTX660 had artificially low power limits, which meant overclocking gained not much in performance unless you used something like Kepler Golden Bios.

[DanceswithUnix]

GTX960 performance previewed:

http://videocardz.com/54401/nvidia-l...eforce-gtx-960

A pre-overclocked card with a 10% overclock was used and its a bit faster than a GTX760 and consumes a bit less power.

So they only give power consumption vs a 290X out of the AMD range in the power graphs? That's pretty bad.

Anyway, if that lot is true then it looks to me like the 285 is a slightly better card for the average Windows user and I see from my morning email that a Gigabyte branded factory overclock Windforce R9 285 is currently £150 (I haven't looked to see if Novatech is a good deal, perhaps you can get them cheaper).

So if these figures are true then I think that narrows it down, I will give £150 for something like the Gigabyte board. I might pay £170 if it has 4GB on it as well as custom cooling and factory overclock. Reference spec board £130 but I would rather pay a bit more for quieter fans.

[jigger]

Unless it supports DP1.2 a+ and comes with a Mantle driver I'm not personally interested, but looking at the performance I would say sub £150 as you can buy a R9 285 for around that price.

Edit: Looking at R9 270 prices I wouldn't pay more than £120 for this card.

[DanceswithUnix]

Unless it supports DP1.2 a+ and comes with a Mantle driver I'm not personally interested, but looking at the performance I would say sub £150 as you can buy a R9 285 for around that price.

Edit: Looking at R9 270 prices I wouldn't pay more than £120 for this card.

Not sure about Mantle, but I am starting to think that lack of FreeSync will hurt Nvidia soon.

If only AMD would release some usable Linux drivers, grumble grumble...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Supposedly in the US the cheapest reference models are around £120 which would be quite competitive pricing.

[peterb]

The problem is we never see a straight exchange rate USD to GBP conversion for our prices in the UK. The price in £ is often not much lower than the price in $. I reckon they'll be around the £200 mark.

US prices are usually quoted without sales tax, while UK prices are quoted inclusive of VAT. If you want to do a straight price comparison, you need to remove the 20% VAT.