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Nvidia to launch GTX 950 on 17 Aug 2015

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Lol a 950 ti :D

Who are these cards aimed at? A GTX 960 is about the baseline for a GPU that can give decent performance at 1080P. Anything less and performance wise it's HTPC / Mobile capability graphics territory and very overpriced for that purpose.
 
ocuk's 950 GTX cards are now on sale: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1914&subid=2392

cheapest is £127. Full specs: http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-950/specifications

review: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-maxwell-based-geforce-gtx-950-launched-149-priced-insane-graphics-card/

It destroys the 750Ti:

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Same pricing as GTX 960 minus the free game :D

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1914&subid=2392

Who these will appeal to is beyond me.. At £99 maybe..

Maybe people like to spend more for less, I'm sure someone will argue that these are good value lol.

rickh said:
People who play the occasional game who don't mind lowering a few quality settings.
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You missed the point, For an extra £10 - £20 you can get a better GPU with a free game that is currently £45 on Steam.

You would have to be a bit simple to choose the 950 over the 960 at it's current price point with no game.

At £99 > £110 the 950 would have been ok. But still ultimately pointless for most people lol.

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Few pounds more, much better GPU, nearly 25% more Cores, and comes with game that retails for £45 on Steam. It's an easy choice people.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-071-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2379

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-159-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2379
 
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Boomstick777 said:
Same pricing as GTX 960 minus the free game :D

Who these will appeal to is beyond me.. At £99 maybe..

You missed the point, For an extra £10 you can get a better GPU with a free game that is currently £45 on Steam.
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This is merely the launch price, i'm sure that it in 2 months the price will be down to £115 at which point it will be £32 cheaper than the 960 GTX and would offer a good price to performance ratio compared to that. The 370X is supposed to launch soon at around $10 more than this card so that could push the price down if the card is competitive. It is £19 cheaper than the 960GTX btw, not £10.
 
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I agree the current pricing is a little high, but if you look at camel camel camel price graphs for the first prices of 750 ti, 960 and other similar cards, waiting 2 weeks tends to bring the prices down. I'd expect to be able to find a 950 for closer to 110 in a few weeks.
 
clocka said:
This is merely the launch price, i'm sure that it in 2 months the price will be down to £115 at which point it will be £32 cheaper than the 960 GTX and would offer a good price to performance ratio compared to that. The 370X is supposed to launch soon at around $10 more than this card so that could push the price down if the card is competitive. It is £17 cheaper than the 960GTX btw, not £10.
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Lol wut,

spend the extra £10 / £20 (Look around) get a GPU with almost 25% more cores and comes with a game that retails for £45 on Steam.

Waiting a few months for a possible price drop is beyond reason.

Buy the 960, sell the code if you must still cheaper / better than the 950...


Logic..
 
Boomstick777 said:
^^

Lol a 950 ti :D

Who are these cards aimed at? A GTX 960 is about the baseline for a GPU that can give decent performance at 1080P. Anything less and performance wise it's HTPC / Mobile capability graphics territory and very overpriced for that purpose.
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750Ti has proven capable at 1080p/30fps for plenty of modern games. Not maxed out, but not everybody is overly concerned with that. Plenty of people just want a MOBA/WoW/CSGO machine too, and you don't exactly need anything special to play those games well.

If this can comfortably beat the 750Ti in performance, it will be a good buy in the budget sector, provided the price is ok(it's a bit high right now). It should also work fine in plenty of pre-built PC's that come with crappy, ~400W PSU's and whatnot.
 
Seanspeed said:
750Ti has proven capable at 1080p/30fps for plenty of modern games. Not maxed out, but not everybody is overly concerned with that. Plenty of people just want a MOBA/WoW/CSGO machine too, and you don't exactly need anything special to play those games well.

If this can comfortably beat the 750Ti in performance, it will be a good buy in the budget sector, provided the price is ok(it's a bit high right now). It should also work fine in plenty of pre-built PC's that come with crappy, ~400W PSU's and whatnot.
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Yeah that would be great if price reflected it's performance positioning, but it doesn't..

It's £10 / £20 cheaper than a GTX 960. The GTX 960 has almost 25% more cores, still uses only 6 pin power and comes with a game worth £45 on Steam. Making the GTX 950 entirely pointless due to it's pricing.

Yes in a 3-6 months it might be cheaper, but why even bother waiting, just spend the extra £10 / £20 now on the 960 get a better card and a game worth £45.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Yeah that would be great if price reflected it's performance positioning, but it doesn't..

It's £10 / £20 cheaper than a GTX 960. The GTX 960 has almost 25% more cores, still uses only 6 pin power and comes with a game worth £45 on Steam. Making the GTX 950 entirely pointless due to it's pricing.

Yes in a 3-6 months it might be cheaper, but why even bother waiting, just spend the extra £10 / £20 now on the 960 get a better card and a game worth £45.
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Your comment was about the performance requirements for 1080p gaming, not necessarily price concerns.
 
GTX 950 is a great product for Nvidia as most sales are to gamers who do not want to pay for the high end GPUs & have 720 or 1080 displays.

Historically these products sell the most number of units so its a key market for Nvidia ;)
 
Seanspeed said:
750Ti has proven capable at 1080p/30fps for plenty of modern games. Not maxed out, but not everybody is overly concerned with that. Plenty of people just want a MOBA/WoW/CSGO machine too, and you don't exactly need anything special to play those games well.

If this can comfortably beat the 750Ti in performance, it will be a good buy in the budget sector, provided the price is ok(it's a bit high right now). It should also work fine in plenty of pre-built PC's that come with crappy, ~400W PSU's and whatnot.
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Also,the gtx750ti can be used in OEM machines which lack PCI-E power connectors.
 
I'm hoping the 6pin connector is just to allow overclocking and it will work without it. I want to add one to my setup that only has a 620w PSU, already using a 4770k and gtx 780.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Um no it wasn't lol...

Price VS performance. 950 is DOA at it's current price...

At £99 it would have been ok.
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Your comment was that a 960 is the baseline GPU for running games at 1080p when asking who the 950 was aimed at. You even made the comment before the OCUK pricing was made available.

So yea, it was. Though I see you're going to be stubborn about it.
 
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