![]() Asus and EVGA’s cards don’t even activate their fans until temperatures hit 55 C and 60 C, respectively. Remember I mentioned how coolly and efficiently the Maxwell architecture lets these new Nvidia cards run? Third-party graphics card makers are already putting that efficiency to tremendous use. The port selection on the Asus Strix is bog-standard for a GTX 960. We reviewed two GTX 960 samples: The Asus Strix with DirectCU II cooling and EVGA’s GTX 960 SuperSC (SSC) edition with ACX 2.0+ cooling. Meet the Asus GTX 960 Strix and EVGA GTX 960 SSC Nvidia’s new graphics card also includes support for DirectX 12, the next-generation, performance-enhancing gaming API coming with Windows 10. In other words, the GTX 960 should be able to stream 4K Netflix streams like a champ-if 4K displays ever really become a big thing, that is. The GTX 960 also supports HDCP 2.2 “content protection” over HDMI. The GTX 970 and 980 support only H.265 encoding. The GTX 960 and its GM206 chip also feature support for H.265 encoding and decoding. This Nvidia slide highlights the GTX 960’s key software features. MFAA’s rolling out in force to coincide with that: While the technology worked with only 20 or so games initially, it’s now supported by every DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 game that supports MSAA, with the exception of Dead Rising 3, Dragon Age 2, and Max Payne 3. While our benchmarks don’t leverage MFAA, as the technology isn’t compatible with AMD cards, Nvidia’s enabling the technology by default if you use the GeForce Experience app to automatically optimize your games. Testing has shown that compared to 4x MSAA, 4x MFAA delivers roughly the same level of visual fidelity at around 8- to 15-percent higher frame rates, depending on the title. MFAA delivers visuals on par with multi-sample anti-aliasing, but with far less of an impact on frame rates. Anti-aliasing smooths out visual jaggies in games, albeit with a performance cost. Nvidia’s Multi-Frame Anti-aliasing technology is getting a big shot in the arm with the release of the GTX 960, however. The Asus GTX 960 Strix, sans shroud, revealing the PCB in all its glory.
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