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

by Parm Mann on 16 January 2015, 16:30

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All signs suggest that Nvidia's GeForce GTX 960 is now just around the corner. We've already seen leaked pictures and premature 3DMark benchmarks, and according to the rumour mill, an official launch will take place on January 22nd.

Exciting times for PC gamers, as the x60-series GPU typically extends the reach of Nvidia's latest architecture by bringing it down to a more affordable price point. Following in the footsteps of the successful GTX 460, 560, 660 and 760 cards, the GTX 960 is expected to bringing Nvidia's cutting-edge Maxwell architecture to a wider audience, and if its predecessors are anything to go by, the new card may sell like hot cakes.

GeForce
GTX 960
Architecture and Year
Fermi, 2010
Fermi, 2011
Kepler, 2012
Kepler, 2013
Maxwell, 2014
Launch MSRP
$229
$199
$199
$249
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Architecture aside, the key ingredient in any x60-series GeForce graphics card is price. The table above highlights launch-day pricing for said SKU over the past five years, and we can see that Nvidia reckons the sweet spot lies between $200 and $250 bucks. That usually translates to UK pricing in the region of £150 - £200, inc. VAT.

But what do the consumers think? With less than a week until launch, how much would you realistically be willing to pay for a GeForce GTX 960, and what do you consider to be the sweet spot for a mid-to-high-end card? As always, let us know your thoughts using the comments facility below.



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Posted by Bagnaj97 - Fri 16 Jan 2015 16:36
£120-£150. By all means have high end cards, and ridiculous halo products above them, but I think more than £150 is too much for the majority of people.
Posted by Ferral - Fri 16 Jan 2015 16:43
Have to say maximum should be around the £155 mark, not everyone can afford the higher end cards. Only reason I have the GTX570 which is nigh on 4 years old soon I only got it as came into a bit of money and wife allowed the spend on a higher end card. Normally though the £150 mark is the sweet spot highest I will pay for a card.
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Fri 16 Jan 2015 16:45
I paid £160 for my GTX460 which is right up at the top end of what I would stump up, and that is for the factory overclock and double the usual RAM. My usual price is more like £130.

I hope it is in that ballpark, I could do with an upgrade (blimey, is that really 4 1/2 years old!, it has done me well).
Posted by Dooms - Fri 16 Jan 2015 16:48
I've spent out on the last couple of GPU's I've got (not the highest option tho!) but normally its £150-200 range. Hell my GTX460 lasted me years, what a card that was :)

On topic… Would hope for the £160 range with this. Could get some mates to upgrade and join in me new games at that sort of price :P
Posted by Jowsey - Fri 16 Jan 2015 16:49
I paid £100 for my gtx760. It was second hand of course! :p

But since it appears to be a similar performaning product to the gtx 760 per the 3d mark score then I wouldn't pay more than £140 for it. Since 760's will price drop in an attempt to clear stock that is where I'd spend my money at the moment.

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