ASUS Strix Edition GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card Review

NVIDIA’s much-anticipated mid-range 900 series card is here. It’s called the GeForce GTX 960 (no need to act surprised) and it brings a couple of surprises. As NVIDIA’s “sweet spot” GPU, the GTX 960 is designed to be an affordable option that lasts the long haul, so let’s see what the green team’s latest $199 option brings to the table.

Bringing a four-month GPU launch drought to an end is NVIDIA’s mid-range GTX 900 series model: The GeForce GTX 960. At first glance, it looks modest – perhaps even underwhelming – but, looks can be deceiving.

The GTX 960 is a card that follows in the footsteps of the GTX 460, 660, and of course, the 760. It targets those gamers who want an affordable card that’s going to offer great performance in current games, and is guaranteed to last them a couple of generations. NVIDIA prides itself on this particular part of its product lineup.

There is a little surprise with the GTX 960, though. Whereas the GTX 760 was priced at $249, and the GTX 660 at $229, the 960 is priced at an attractive $199. As the card competes with AMD’s Radeon R9 285, which has cards hovering closer to the ~$230s price point, that price tag becomes even more notable.

That might all sound attractive, but the GTX 960 does have one stand-out spec that’s sure to cause some concern: Its 128-bit memory bus. That’s unusual for a model at this point point, but lest we forget that both the GTX 980 and 970 had an atypical bus for high-end cards (256-bit), yet both still soared to the top of GPU performance charts.

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