Possible details GTX 960 and new Radeon cards come online

Some of the possible specifications of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 have appeared online. Images of manufacturers’ maps have also been published. In addition, there is a new indication that the top model of the new Radeon line will receive high-bandwidth memory.

The specifications of the GTX 960 have appeared on Videocardz, which got the details from several sites. The GTX 960 contains the 28nm produced GM206 GPU with 1024 cudacores and would have a memory clock speed of 1753MHz. That is half the number of cores that the GM204 of the GTX 980 has. Furthermore, there are 32 rops and probably 64 tmu’s.

The amount of gddr5 memory would be 2GB, but 4GB variants may be on the way. As previously speculated, the card appears to be getting a 128bit interface, while the tdp could be at 120W. In addition to the specifications, new images of the GTX 960 from Gigabyte, Inno3D and KFA2 have also appeared.

At the same time, new details about the upcoming Radeon generation have come online. The LinkedIn page of AMD’s system architect manager, Linglan Zhang, states that he has had his hand in “the world’s first 300W 2.5D discrete GPU using a stacked die with high bandwidth memory and a silicon interposer.” Rumors of AMD’s use of stacked DRAM have been circulating for nearly a year. SK Hynix started supplying 2.5D hbm in November last year.

Asic designer Ilana Shternshain’s profile states that he is “responsible for the full-chip timing methodology and closure for AMD’s chips such as those for PlayStation 4, the Radeon R9 290X and the R9 380X.” The latter is described as the largest of the ‘King of the Hill’ products. It is unclear whether the R9 380X will have HBM or whether it concerns, for example, an R9 390X.