NVIDIA today announces the GeForce GTX 950 graphics card, which is the companies latest entry-level graphics card that is targeted at sub-$500 gaming PC builds. The card is designed to offer good gaming at 1600 x 900 and 1920 x 1080 (moderate-high details) resolutions. The GTX 950 will officially succeed the GTX 750 Ti and will be priced at $159.99.
The card is based on the 28 nm GM206 silicon, which NVIDIA uses in the GTX 960. The GTX 950 has 768 CUDA cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 2 GB of GDDR5 across a 128-bit wide memory interface. The core is clocked at 1024 MHz, with 1188 MHz GPU Boost and the memory is at 6.0 GHz (GDDR5-effective). The card has a typical board power rating of just 90W and gets power from a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector.