http://www.evga.com/articles/00895/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-960/
 
The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 delivers incredible performance, power efficiency, and gaming technologies that only NVIDIA Maxwell technology can offer. This is the perfect upgrade, offering 60% faster performance and twice the power efficiency of previous-generation cards*. Plus, it features VXGI for realistic lighting, support for smooth, tear-free NVIDIA G-SYNC technology, and Dynamic Super Resolution for 4K-quality gaming on 1080P displays.
The new EVGA ACX 2.0+ cooler brings new features to the award winning EVGA ACX 2.0 cooling technology. A Memory MOSFET Cooling Plate (MMCP) reduces MOSFET temperatures up to 11°C, and optimized Straight Heat Pipes (SHP) reduce GPU temperature by an additional 5°C. ACX 2.0+ coolers also feature optimized Swept fan blades, double ball bearings and an extreme low power motor, delivering more air flow with less power, unlocking additional power for the GPU.
*Compared to GTX 660

The fan shroud looks good. EVGA cards definitely look the nicest of all the company's. Backplate?

255killer
The fan shroud looks good. EVGA cards definitely look the nicest of all the company's. Backplate?

FTW model has backplate.

Scarlet-Tech

I addressed this in the other thread you felt like sharing.

If you seriously expect them to not apply updates as users demand them, then you are seriously mislead. Get over the updates and be happy they are trying to make them better. They applied the updates to the ftw+ so they shouldn't have applied them to an even newer card? That is seriously flawed thinking. Just stop.

 
I guess I just wish that they hadn't tried to cheap out on the components of the 970 so much so that it required the many updates. It's not like EVGA is new to the concept of making a GPU not be starved for power. They didn't learn how to make a good PCB for the first time with the FTW+, they just learned that their cost cutting attempts weren't worth the backlash. I'm posting to applaud them for not attempting to cut costs so heavily this time, and also to make it clear that it's not all forgive and forget as I will still have to pay $30+ to actually get the decent PCB/bios. If their entire customer base only praised them for fixing their willful mistake of cheeping out on the 970 PCB, then they won't have any reason not to try it again in the future.
 
Anyway, I've said my piece and I assume you've said or will say yours so I won't attempt to take this any further off topic.
 
Looks like the 960 has only 3 VRAM chips on a 128bit bus. I think that will require different sized chips to have that add up like the old 192 bit 2gb 660. I don't know why Nvidia would've chosen to do that as they have a nice even bus width to work with on this card, unlike the 660 where they wanted to hit 2gb without a 256bit bus. The 660 design saved them die space on the GPU by not needing to go up to a 256bit bus, but as far as I can tell this is only saving them the price of 1 VRAM chip going with 3 instead of 4. There's surely more to it, but I'm interested to find out what that is. Maybe Anandtech will go in depth on that.

Its to expensive and doesnt perform much better than gtx 760 / r9 280
Its a shame. I guess there will be a GTX 960 Ti.
 
Thought the performance should be like the gtx 770 !

Any chance of evga making a mini gtx 960?

Grumble, a slight step back from the 760's. The 960's are only 2 way SLI compatible where the 760's were 3 way SLI compatible. On the EVGA side of things I understand that 3 way SLI probably wasn't a high demand item for the x60 series of GPU's, so why include it.

freEVfoldinGA
 i don't think EVGA makes those decisions, that'll be Nvidia's call to make.

Didn't think about that, but your probably right. Still a minor grip to me.

Any reviews of the 960SC or info on the fan speeds? Looks nice but looks can be deceiving, I definitely don't want another noisy low tdp card after owning the 750Ti SC

why does this card need 6 phases?!?

Scarlet-Tech

 

 
The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 delivers incredible performance, power efficiency, and gaming technologies that only NVIDIA Maxwell technology can offer. This is the perfect upgrade, offering 60% faster performance and twice the power efficiency of previous-generation cards*. Plus, it features VXGI for realistic lighting, support for smooth, tear-free NVIDIA G-SYNC technology, and Dynamic Super Resolution for 4K-quality gaming on 1080P displays.
The new EVGA ACX 2.0+ cooler brings new features to the award winning EVGA ACX 2.0 cooling technology. A Memory MOSFET Cooling Plate (MMCP) reduces MOSFET temperatures up to 11°C, and optimized Straight Heat Pipes (SHP) reduce GPU temperature by an additional 5°C. ACX 2.0+ coolers also feature optimized Swept fan blades, double ball bearings and an extreme low power motor, delivering more air flow with less power, unlocking additional power for the GPU.
*Compared to GTX 660

So I'm looking to get the FTW 960. Any ideas when it will be released?

Scarlet-Tech
It should be available now. newegg, Amazon, EVGA.com. Hopefully it hasn't sold it already.

I can't find the FTW one anywhere though.

I'm still with the 1st 970 acx2.0 without backplate.. That should be free no? Bc it provides some extracooling on the pcb microchips

I do not think these will. Let me grab you a good reference video. Pauls Hardware does an excellent job presenting these cards...


Watch "GTX 960 SLI: Is It Worth It?" on YouTube
GTX 960 SLI: Is It Worth It?: http://youtu.be/_9N8HJ2eWN4

At 1080p, which is the only thing the 960 is aimed at, not even 1440p should be considered, two of these seem to be able to perform on par with a single 980.

If you already have 780s, I suggest either stay with them, or sell them and get a single 980, which will allow you to upgrade in the future, while not being necessary as soon..