• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.
  • The forums have been upgraded with support for dark mode. By default it will follow the setting on your system/browser. You may override it by scrolling to the end of the page and clicking the gears icon.

NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card

btarunr

Editor & Senior Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Oct 9, 2007
Messages
47,776 (7.41/day)
Location
Dublin, Ireland
System Name RBMK-1000
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2
Cooling DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory 2x 16GB DDR4-3200
Video Card(s) Galax RTX 4070 Ti EX
Storage Samsung 990 1TB
Display(s) BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s) ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard Gamdias Hermes E2
Software Windows 11 Pro
NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 950, its latest entry-mainstream graphics card targeted at sub-$500 gaming PC builds that compete with game-consoles. The card is designed to offer sufficient pixel-crunching muscle for resolutions such as 1600 x 900 and 1920 x 1080 (moderate-high details). The GTX 950 succeeds the GTX 750 Ti, and is priced at US $159.99.

Based on the same 28 nm GM206 silicon as the GeForce GTX 960, the GTX 950 offers 768 CUDA cores based on the 2nd generation "Maxwell" architecture, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, across a 128-bit wide memory interface. Its core is clocked at 1024 MHz, with 1188 MHz GPU Boost, and 6.60 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. At its given specs, the card has a typical board power rating of just 90W, and makes do with a single 6-pin PCIe power connector.



View at TechPowerUp Main Site
 
Good looking IO layout, to bad many of the companies chose some odd custom designs for the outputs instead of sticking with the amazing design Nvidia chose reference!

The fan makes me laugh because of how tiny it is on this one. I want to see if this round we see some of those low profile versions or single slot cards!!!
 
Good looking IO layout, to bad many of the companies chose some odd custom designs for the outputs instead of sticking with the amazing design Nvidia chose reference!

The fan makes me laugh because of how tiny it is on this one. I want to see if this round we see some of those low profile versions or single slot cards!!!

+1 Would love to see a single slot version of this card.
 
I want to see if this round we see some of those low profile versions or single slot cards!!!

Probably Gigabyte will save the day with outputs in the low profile field again GTX 750 / Ti:

2474791-b.jpg gigabyte_gtx_750ti_oc_low_prof_0742_1.jpg

However no more blower type low profile cards, not since 2010 and Palit GTS 450:

3588_06_full.jpg Palit-2.jpg
 
Every single card reviewed today was twin fan ... a 90W rating doesn't need the hassle of twin fan.
 
Probably Gigabyte will save the day with outputs in the low profile field again GTX 750 / Ti:

View attachment 67444 View attachment 67445

However no more blower type low profile cards, not since 2010 and Palit GTS 450:

View attachment 67446 View attachment 67447
Well there was this that was a single slot blower, but other than that the closest were those low profile dual slot GTX 750ti's. I would love to see some more tiny cards again!

I hope this realm does get explored though!
 
I don't like this card ... it's weak but it wants to look powerful ... great for overpriced budget boutique gaming machines ... also too many of these will be sold to people thinking they are actually upgrading into the 900 series and the fabled Maxwell. I hope humanity learned that 950 is not actually greater than 760 when it comes to nvidia GPUs, but I doubt it.
 
I don't like this card ... it's weak but it wants to look powerful ... great for overpriced budget boutique gaming machines ... also too many of these will be sold to people thinking they are actually upgrading into the 900 series and the fabled Maxwell. I hope humanity learned that 950 is not actually greater than 760 when it comes to nvidia GPUs, but I doubt it.

If someone with a 760 upgrades to one of these, then they need a good wakeup slap, because they are obviously in a dreamworld.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 64K
If someone with a 760 upgrades to one of these, then they need a good wakeup slap, because they are obviously in a dreamworld.

Yeah, that would be a side grade at best. Even the power savings wouldn't amount to much unless you pay some ridiculous amount for electricity.
 
Back
Top