GeForce GTX 960 Video cards with 4 Gbytes

Inno3D and EVGA are the first partners to present NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 video cards with 4 GBytes of video memory, a feature of which you can do without. A recurring question among users less enthusiasts who are looking for a video card for your PC is that of knowing ” how much memory is present on a card. ”

There is a tendency to think that a greater amount of video memory correspond higher-speed performance, without considering other very important technical elements such as architecture and operating frequencies.

The amount of video memory, with the same technical characteristics, does not affect the speed performance of a video card unless you use settings, in terms of video resolution and image quality, which overwhelm the storage space made available from the video memory.

The operation carried out by EVGA and Inno3D, to propose GeForce GTX 960 video cards that are equipped with 4 Gbytes of video memory against the traditional quantity of 2 Gbytes combined with these products, it is therefore dictated by marketing needs and not by a precise technical justification.

The computing power made available by the GeForce GTX 960 is also that it does not allow to get particularly high frames per second video at resolutions higher than 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, setting that also selecting quality parameters very driven is handled smoothly with 2 Gbytes video memory.

Operations of this type are quite frequent, and we got to see a lot of different implemented by partners NVIDIA as those AMD. If with the GeForce GTX 960, a quantity of video memory to 4 Gbytes is abundant but if obtained with a limited impact on the overall cost is even acceptable, very different speech if this is done with end cards cheaper.

In this case, the increase of onboard video memory has even less sense, since the reduced power of the GPU coupled not allow to obtain in any case adequate speed performance with those settings that require a high amount of onboard memory.