The specs of the GTX 950 whether confirmed or not, is set to battle out with the R7 370 and will replace the 750 / 750 Ti. All these cards within this bracket are perfect as a budget mid-range card and potential HTPC and console killer builds. Only confirmed fact is that rather than basing on the GM107 Core, the GTX 950 will use the same GM206 Core found on the 960. Although nVidia has been successful with the GTX 750 Ti which proved to be enough for budget gaming at 1080p, the 950 is a large update that will replace the 750 and might even beat out the 750 Ti. Now Specs-wise, the leaked specifications are as follows, and here's a quick comparison table between the GM107 based GTX 750, 750 Ti and the upcoming 950.
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My guess that the GTX 950 will be around 50% faster than the 750 it will replace and it'll have more power
headroom with an extra 150W from the 8 pin PCI-E. |
Now already, the specs shown to be a hot replacement for both GM107 based cards. The GTX 950 will have an 8-pin PCI-E port compared to some having a 6-pin or most of it, none. You have a total of 225 Watts of TDP to play with which is massively overkill but to me, that's no bummer because for 2 reasons. There'd be enough Headroom for overclocking and the other reason is to provide enough juice and power stability when the card is running at full tilt.
Something I'm looking out for whether the card will run SLI. It'll be nice if it can.
It has been reported that nVidia started slashing prices of the GTX 750 Ti / 750 as they'll probably clear out stocks for the 950 release. So those who have been running old 550 Tis, 650, 650 Tis, you have a choice of waiting out for a GTX 950 or go for the cheaper GTX 750 Ti before stocks run dry. Not sure whether a Ti version of the 950 will be released with 3GB of Memory, 896 Cores and hopefully a 192-bit bus. That I doubt nVidia is gonna do that unless pending on reviews.
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