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The NVIDIA GTX 960 was released today, priced at $190 and boasts 1024 CUDA cores at 1279 MHz base clock. If anyone is able to get their hands on one and test it, let us know your PPD and any other comments.

http://www.pcgamer.com/evga-geforce-gtx-960-review/

Highest I get was about 150k PPD.

Power draw's pretty good, I'm seeing around 140w - 160w wall draw on 90% efficiency PSU.

I'm using the GALAX GTX 960 OC http://www.goldfries.com/hardware-revie ... rd-review/

What I like is that I could maintain silent operation at around 45% fan speed while maintaining GPU temps under 70°C.

is that total system draw? if so what cpu etc are you running?

Overclocked or stock clocks?

Do anyone knows if the geforce 960 do have the same problem as geforce 970/980 regardign the drivers? It is based on another chip as far as I know

Yes, it's based on a GM206 chip rather than a GM204 but that still makes it rather different than the GM107 used in the GTX 750 Ti. My guess is that the 3rd digit in the chip name means something, but we won't know until somebody tests it.

NVidia may fix the problem with new drivers at any time and make the answer unimportant. (They may already have. See my reply in this topic.)

160k PPD on 960 (old i3 3,1Ghz rig).

Clock 1500Mhz.

Sn1ken wrote:160k PPD on 960 (old i3 3,1Ghz rig).

Clock 1500Mhz.

Is this in Windows? Looks like the GTX970 will still hold the crown for for PPD/$/watt. I get 300K PPD each out of all 4-970's I have in Linux @ 1503Mhz.

Buck Nasty wrote: Is this in Windows? Looks like the GTX970 will still hold the crown for for PPD/$/watt. I get 300K PPD each out of all 4-970's I have in Linux @ 1503Mhz.

Yes it is running windows.

And there is no doubt about 970 is king of PPD/Watt and PPD/$ by far.

I just bought this to find out what it`s potential myself.

Sn1ken wrote:

Buck Nasty wrote: Is this in Windows? Looks like the GTX970 will still hold the crown for for PPD/$/watt. I get 300K PPD each out of all 4-970's I have in Linux @ 1503Mhz.

Yes it is running windows.

And there is no doubt about 970 is king of PPD/Watt and PPD/$ by far.

I just bought this to find out what it`s potential myself.

And we thank you for that. Still a neat little card to play with. I bet you could pick up 10K PPD in Linux.

Statistics for hardware progress in recent years. Only NVidia GTX x60 GPU's:

Core_ZETA

GTX 460 - 16-18k PPD (Release Price - $229)
GTX 560 - 18-20k PPD (Release Price - $199)
GTX 660 - 40-50k PPD (Release Price - $230)
GTX 760 - 65-75k PPD (Release Price - $249)
GTX 960 - 150-160k PPD (Release Price - $199)

how much Watt does it need Sn1ken? And what does GPUz says about the TDP?

per testing of actual draw at techpowerup around 120 watts.

i know the tests from TPU but i wanted to get the value while folding. E.g the 970 takes around 47% TDP while Project 9201 is on the line meaning it takes around 120-140 Watt. (G1 Gaming = 250 W TDP)

LikZ wrote:how much Watt does it need Sn1ken? And what does GPUz says about the TDP?

I use use wattmeter like this:



At 1540Mhz and 177k PPD (now on my i7 rig PCIe 3.0 x16) I read 107W when Pause folding, and 170W from the wall when folding.

To compare my 295x2 says 550W (about 450W GPU) on the same meter when folding stock and produce about 460k PPD.