Nvidia has introduced their new GTX 960 today, with a SRP of around £ 159 / ? 209 and meant to allow optimum Full HD resolution gaming. Compared to its predecessors the GTX 760 and 660 the card is not only (a lot) faster according to Nvidia, but also uses a lot less power. This would make it the "overclockers dream card" according to the manufacturer.

In the last few days and weeks there has already been a lot of information floating around about the new GTX 960, the only thing that was yet unclear was the actual price the card would get introduced at. It has proven today that the prices that were guessed so far have been way too high, as we have been told that standard cards will cost around £ 159 / ? 209 at introduction and the custom cards will only be a bit more expensive than that. That puts the GTX 960 on par with the AMD Radeon R9 280, and this will be our main comparison in the benchmarks we are running for this test.

The GTX 960 is based on the GM206 chip from the Maxwell-generation, basically a smaller and less complex version of the GM204 chip that can be found in the more expensive GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970. All possibilities that we discussed in that review like DSR, MFAA and HDMI 2.0 are present in the GM206 chip, as well as a H.265 video-decoder that we will talk about a bit later.