14 DAY TRIAL // That green-logoed company based in Santa Clara, California, released the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card two days ago, on January 22, which prompted all its OEMs to unveil products of their own. Point of View is one of those OEMs.
Point of View, or POV for short, has two video cards up for sale, one of them being the reference adapter and the other being a custom variant.
Curiously enough, they both look exactly the same, owing to POV not giving the Trooper a different cooling module.
This goes to show that NVIDIA's claims about GTX 960 being an overclockable card were true, if the stock cooler supports tweaks well enough that an OEM doesn't fear a factory overclock will wear it down prematurely.
The Trooper GTX 960 Ammo
This video card has the GM206-300 graphics processing unit operating at 1,165 MHz most of the time, and 1,165 MHz and 1,228 MHz for the GPU Boost state.
Note that this is a GPU with 1,024 CUDA cores and a 128-bit interface through which the 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are controlled. Those 2 GB of memory have a frequency of 7,010 MHz. For comparison, the regular GeForce GTX 960 operates at 1,127 MHz and 1,178 MHz Base / Boost.
Other than the above, the graphics adapter offers three DisplayPort connectors, one dual-link DVI-D and a mini HDMI output.
All in all, the Trooper GeForce GTX 960 AMMO is a decent video card, and a version of the GTX 960 that will likely cost somewhat less than some of the more hardcore models out there, like ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 or the three Gigabyte cards.
Of course, it does mean you don't get a better and unique cooler, but considering that even the stock fansink stays completely off unless you launch a reasonably demanding game, you don't have to worry about noise anyway.
Availability
The POV Trooper GTX 960 AMMO graphics card should be put up for order on retailer websites soon, if it hasn't already, for the price of around $200 / €200.
Curiously enough, the reference POV GTX 960 is also called Trooper, though it lacks the “AMMO” at the end. Otherwise, everything is the same, including the video outputs.
MFAA (multi-frame anti-aliasing), VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination, for better dynamic lighting) and Dynamic Super Resolution technology (4K quality on 1080p displays) are, of course, all present.
