Should make for an interesting entry-level 1080p gaming card, depending on the price.
2gb vRam is fine for such a card at 1080p - I still run 680's with 2gb vRam yet have managed to "max" games that reportedly need more than that without any obvious issues. A few titles launched recently have proven to be FAR less demanding of vRam than initially reported.
Additionally, I was wondering how well that "half speed" 128 (vs. 265) bit bus will cope? Again, at single monitor 1080p settings I expect it'll be fine. My 680's usually show now more than 40-50% peak memory controller load, which suggests the 256bit bus isn't saturated. A 128bit might run maxed out more, but should hopefully cope. Obviously this is all subject to bus (2.0 or 3.0) and number of lanes of course. It looks from the picture that these GPU's are not meant for SLI unfortunately.
Needless to say this is not going to be a card for 1440/1600p/4k or tri-screen gamers, but doubtless it'll have its place.
I guess we'll see once the cards are in the hands of testers.
Scoob.
I'm glad I sold my 760 before the 960 hype arrived but I wouldn't be upset if I still owned it. 256-bit bus, 4GB, 1152 Cores and it was dead happy to sit at 1300MHz all day long. This is gonna have to be stupendously efficient or cheap to make any sense at all.
