Nvidia has now officially announced its newest member of Geforce 900 series graphics card lineup, the GM206-based GTX 950. Aimed at entry-level gaming, the new Geforce GTX 950 will replace the GTX 750 Ti and be priced at US $159.99.

According to Nvidia, the Geforce GTX 950 is a direct successor of now quite old Geforce GTX 750 Ti graphics which was based on first generation Maxwell GM107 GPU, and should provide enough performance for games running at 1600x900 or even 1920x1080 but at lower details.

The new Geforce GTX 950 is based on the second generation Maxwell GPU, the GM206, which is pretty much the same GPU which we had a chance to see with the GTX 960, just a slightly cut-down version. The GM206 behind the Geforce GTX 950 has six active SMMs for 768 CUDA cores, 48 Texture Units and 32 ROPs and comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface.




When compared to the Geforce GTX 750, which packed 640 CUDA cores, 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs and had a 60W TDP, the Geforce GTX 950 should provide healthy performance boost, but also comes with a slightly higher 90W TDP and cost US $10 more at the launch. The higher TDP means that most, if not all Geforce GTX 950 on the market will require a 6-pin PCI-Express power connector.

The Geforce GTX 950 sounds like a perfect graphics card for light gaming or HTPC systems, as it will provide enough performance punch for MOBA titles and bring both HDMI 2.0 and HEVC decoding support.




There will be plenty of different graphics card to choose from as most partners will come up with their own version of the graphics card. Priced at US $159.99, the Geforce GTX 950 fits somewhat above AMD's Radeon R7 370, based on a well known and quite old Pitcairn GPU and priced at US $149.99.







Source: Nvidia.com