As expected, the latest report suggest that Nvidia is working on a GTX 960 Ti graphics card in order to counter AMD's recently launched Antigua based Radeon R9 380X graphics card.

Currently, Nvidia has a big gap between the GTX 960, which packs 1024 CUDA cores in 8 SMMs, and the GTX 970, which packs 1644 CUDA cores in 13 SMMs. According to a report from Wccftech.com, the upcoming GTX 960 Ti could end up with either 10 or 11 SMMs, which will leave it with 1280 or 1408 CUDA cores, both which should fit nicely between the GTX 960 and the GTX 970.

Such graphics card could end up priced at around US $249 mark since the GTX 960 is now priced at US $199 while the GTX 970 is priced at US $329.

Nvidia might go on an easier path and simply use its GTX 960 OEM Edition graphics card which has 10 SMMs, 1280 CUDA cores, so it can simply rebrand it as the GTX 960 Ti for consumer market. The GTX 960 OEM Edition also packs a 192-bit memory interface which is a significant boost from the 128-bit one on the GTX 960.

The upcoming GTX 960 Ti will surely be based on Maxwell 2.0 architecture and have support for DirectX 12, feature level 12_1. Nvidia will not have the next-generation Pascal GPU ready before the second quarter of 2016 so it has to make due with what it currently has in order to compete with AMD.

In any case, GTX 960 Ti sounds like a great mid-range graphics card that could be a perfect holiday present pick for many consumers looking for an upgrade.



Source: According to a report from Wccftech.com.