The best we’ve found comes from Gainwaird, which sells a card that costs £175 but comes with a core tweaked to a whopping 1,279MHz. More expensive cards arrive with more ambitious overclocks. Even at the bottom end of the scale, cards are routinely available in overclocked versions: a Palit model ups the core to 1,165MHz and the memory to 7,200MHz, and a Gainward card raises the core to the same speed but leaves the memory alone. That means there’s a huge variety of cards available to buy.Īt the time of writing, GTX 960 cards range in price from £160 to £194. Nvidia hasn’t made a reference version of the GTX 960 – instead, it’s produced the chip and shipped the design out to its board partners. Nvidia GeForce GTX 960: Other things to consider And, with no reference model available, temperature will vary depending on your card’s cooling system.
Little stood out about the GTX 960’s temperature – at peak its top temperature of 61 degrees is lower than its AMD rivals, but not by much. The Nvidia card was similarly impressive when running at load its top power draw of 196W was miles better the AMD cards. With the Nvidia card installed, our test rig drew just 67W from the mains, while the R9 280X needed 83W, and the R9 285 needed 20W on top of that. The GTX 960 might fall a little behind some of its rivals in the majority of our tests, but the Maxwell architecture is designed for efficiency – and it delivered a stonking set of power benchmarks. The GTX 960’s average of 32.2fps is half a frame behind the R9 285, which hit 32.8fps, and barely a frame behind the table-topping R9 280X.
The field was similarly close in Unigine Heaven. The GTX 960 scored 6,586 in the application’s standard test, but it was beaten by both AMD cards – the R9 280X led the way with a score of 6,804, and the R9 285 wasn’t far behind with 6,744. The 3D Mark Fire Strike test is a good evaluation of a card’s theoretical performance, but this test wasn’t good news for Nvidia. The GTX 960’s 39fps average is fine, but it’s still behind the 280 cards – the 280X performed best here, with an average of 43fps.
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The GTX 960’s 1080p minimum of 19fps isn’t great, and it’s still a long way from its 62fps average result – so, again, it’s a quirk we’re willing to push aside.Īll told, this is a perfect example of why we don’t take minimum framerates as the main focus of our testing – it’s a helpful indicator but not the be all and end all. None of these cards impressed with minimum framerates, but we’ve run into this situation before – all of AMD’s cards returned minimum framerate results in the single-figures, but these slow individual frames didn’t hamper the smooth play we saw on our screens. That’s behind the 67fps scored by the R9 280X, but it’s a long way ahead of the R9 285 – AMD’s latest card languished with a 49fps average. Nvidia’s card returned an average of 62fps in Metro’s 1080p test. Nvidia GeForce GTX 960: Metro: Last Light Performance
Metro: Last Light performance, Further Benchmarks and Other Things to Consider Review.Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3 and Batman: Arkham Origins performance Review.160 FPS in Ultra 1440p costing $4.99 per frame or 1440p High gets 200+ FPS costing $3.57 per frame. Otherwise you can get some great performance by moving down a resolution bracket to 1440p. But if that doesnt feel right for you then you can drop the graphics setting down to High for 134 FPS costing $5.96 per frame. Metro: Last Light Redux gets 95 FPS at 4K Ultra costing $8.41 per frame. To summarise, this game runs easily using this graphics card at all resolutions. Especially if you have a Intel Core i7-8700K 6-Core 3.7GHz processor or better. We would recommend 4K as the way to go here. The GeForce RTX 2080 along with the right system memory, 6GB, is very capable of getting top FPS results even at 4K Ultra graphics settings. This GPU can play Metro: Last Light Redux at a respectable 95 frame rate on 4K Ultra. Which is at High settings on 1080p performance.Īt $8.41 per FPS at 4K, if we assume the GPU’s launch price. Running a GeForce RTX 2080 to play Metro: Last Light Redux shows us that we expect it to get a very strong 200+ FPS. Low Vs Ultra GeForce RTX 2080 Performance Review
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