Fortunately, we at least have a specific release date now

Dec 30, 2014 07:34 GMT  ·  By

In what has started to look like a tedious back and forth, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card from NVIDIA has been the subject of yet another contradicting report. Although since the new report only contradicts a rumor that itself contradicted another, it's hard to say which is the real contrary party here.

Semantics aside, the latest report about the video board, coming from Hermitage Akihabara, states that the video card won't be launched during the 2015 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show after all.

Instead, the board will be released on January 22. This means that you won't be seeing this long-awaited mainstream (barely) application of NVIDIA's Maxwell micro-architecture as soon as you may have hoped.

The situation has more or less come full circle really. While initially the launch date was up in the air, rumors started to circulate about January 22 eventually.

Then others were “no, it's going to be during CES 2015,” which meant January 6-9. And it would have made sense, given the theme and scope of the yearly Las Vegas trade show.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 graphics card

Compared to other video boards in the past, the leaks concerning the video adapter haven't revealed all that much information about it, despite how many weeks they've been happening for.

While we do know that the card will be built around the NVIDIA GM206 Maxwell silicon, everything else is guesswork.

Most importantly, not even a hint of the operational frequencies has made it through the quagmire that is the Internet.

Thus, we are left having to speculate on the performance based on the 128-bit memory interface (though some rumors say 192 bits), the 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (though again, some rumors say 3 GB), and the price of around $200 / €170 to €200.

The card may still make an early appearance

If NVIDIA really does intend to only release the adapter to retail stores on January 22, 2015, it still doesn't exclude the possibility of the board showing up at the Consumer Electronics Show. It wouldn't be the first paper launch in history after all.

So we won't totally give up on the hope of a CES 2015 appearance. While NVIDIA might still keep the GTX 960 in reserve and not show it off there, we don't see why it couldn't at least let it pose for a few pictures. Maybe we'll even see a game demo or two, who knows?