Nvidia Reportedly Phasing Out 2GB GTX 960 In Favour Of 4GB Models

In a telling sign of where we’re headed with hardware demands, reports are circulating that Nvidia is planning to phase out the 2GB variants of its GeForce GTX 960 graphics cards. The models with 2GB of GDDR5 memory will dropped in favour of the 4GB flavours, which will become the sole versions.

We haven’t had confirmation from Nvidia just yet, but the recent given by Chinese site HWBattle is Nvidia wishes to make the GTX 960 “more attractive to buyers." Which is business as usual really. It’s closest competitor is AMD’s R9 380, which also comes in 2GB and 4GB variants. We’ve seen with games like Shadow of Mordor and The Evil Within that games are beginning to use far in excess of 2GB VRAM, even at the 1080p resolution at which the GeForce GTX 960 excels. In a few specific circumstances then, these mid-range graphics cards are benefitting from the bump in video memory. The next issue for Nvidia will be price. Most of the 4GB GTX 960s are priced a fair chunk higher than the Radeon R9 380, despite slightly lesser performance, so the pressure is on Nvidia to cho the 4GB 960’s down to the price of the 2GB models being phased out.