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Nvidia Corp. is working on a yet another graphics card based on the GM206 graphics processor, which will fill the gap between the GeForce GTX 950 and the GeForce GTX 960. The GeForce GTX 950 Ti is in development and it is unclear when exactly it will be released, but since unofficial information about it continues to circulate, it looks like Nvidia has plans to launch it.
Hermitage Akihabara reports that Nvidia is gearing up to unveil its new GeForce GTX 950 less than a week from now, but in addition to that, the company is finalizing a more powerful solution, the GeForce GTX 950 Ti. Based on what is known about the GM206 graphics processing unit and the GeForce GTX 950, it is highly likely that the GeForce GTX 950 Ti will sport 896 stream processors and will offer performance between the GTX 950 and the GTX 960. Perhaps, select “premium” versions of the GeForce GTX 950 Ti will also get 4GB of GDDR5 memory.
Given rather negligible difference of the GeForce GTX 960 and the GeForce GTX 950 Ti technical specifications, it is likely that in some cases the latter may even challenge the former, especially when overclocked.
Thanks to leading-edge functionality of the GeForce GTX 950 Ti – the GM206 supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.3, OpenCL 1.1, Vulkan and Nvidia’s proprietary technologies – the novelty has all chances to become popular among gamers with tight budgets. Moreover, the product will also be ideal for HTPC enthusiasts since it supports hardware H.265 (HEVC) encoding/decoding and is compatible with HDCP 2.2 content protection over HDMI 2.0, a set of technologies that will be required to playback Ultra HD Blu-ray content.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: Keeping in mind Nvidia’s current market positions, the company hardly needs to release the GeForce GTX 950 Ti: the GTX 950 and the GTX 960 can satisfy demands for lower-priced and higher-performance mainstream graphics adapters. Another offering in the segment will make life harder for AMD, but will unlikely translate into significantly higher sales for Nvidia.
I would be shocked, yet pleasantly surprised, if a GTX 950 ti came out. We still don’t have a 960 ti, so there is a HUGE gap between the 960 and 970 in both price and performance.
Myself and another person did the math last week comparing many benchmarks: https://disqus.com/home/discussion/techfrag/priced_at_150_gtx_950_is_rumored_to_launch_in_mid_august/#comment-2185412188
So, assuming the 750ti represents 100% performance, the scale was:
750ti = 100
950 (rumored) = 125.4
960 = 167.2
If we added in the 950ti using specs alone, we get:
950ti = 146.3
So, I’m not sure that I see the point in such a product. If the 960 retail is $200, and the 950 will be $150, then once again there’s the $100+ and staggering performance gap between the 960 and 970. I’d think that would get attacked first, rather than diluting a $50 price gap. They’re already liquidating the 750ti to clear room for the 950. I see no point in NV further competing with themselves.
Going to need a 960ti as well..
on board graphics is enough for my needs, i don’t have to waste money to move cartoon characters with key board.
I have the first Asus 750i video card and it an great card but it can’t SLI with another one but for basic movie watching and low detail game playing it great, but really hope the new GTX 950 be able to be low budget video card for tight budget but can do SLI to help people who are tight on money but get better game FPS and better game details as they play.
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Bullshit , there is no space between GTX 950 and GTX 960 (With NVIDIA’s logic)
This card never gonna show up or GTX 950’s has sub 150 dolar price than this become true
i had a 750Ti on a 16gig rig with a 4790k cpu for a while (till i replaced the 750 with two 970s). The 750Ti was a monster, i coupld play every game at decent settings at 1080. WatchDogs is the only one i remember specifically, but I could play that at fairly high settings at 60fps. Not sure if you were just exaggerating for effect, if so sorry, but if you meant “low detail gaming” literally, something else on your rig must be bottlenecking you, or you are using brand new AAA games as a benchmark (like the new Battlefield or COD or something). a 750Ti not being bottlenecked can handle things like GTAV at upper mid-range settings just fine.