Any person who have literally built a desktop or dealt in the purchasing of the graphics card in the present, or in the recent past, have two major choices - Nvidia and AMD. (Photo : Reuters)
Nvidia is planning to release its mid-range GeForce GTX 950 graphics card on Aug. 17. Analysts claim that the new graphics card from Nvidia will compete with the Radeon R7 370 graphics card from AMD.
According to Tech Spot, the upcoming graphics card from Nvidia will be the GTX 950 and not the previously rumored GTX 950 Ti. The video card uses a downgraded version of the GM206 graphics processing unit which was first seen in the GTX 960 graphics card released in January.
Nvidia is cutting down 25 percent of GM206's CUDA cores putting the GTX 950's core count at 768, according to IGN. Clock speed for the new video card is rumored to be around 1150MHz up to 1250MHz with a boost clock speed between 1350MHz and 1450MHz.
Despite the cut in CUDA cores, the new video card's clock speed will be slightly higher than its predecessor. The GTX 960 has a base clock speed of 1127MHz and boost clock speed of 1178MHz.
The new video card has a 2GB GDDR5 memory with base clock of 6600MHz and boost clock of 6750MHz. The graphics card has a 90W thermal design power delivered by a single 8-pin PCI express connector. By comparison, the Radeon R7 370 graphics card from AMD has 4GB of GDDR5 memory and falls within the same $150 price bracket as the GTX 950.
As for the video card's input and output interface, it has two DVI ports, one DisplayPort 1.2 output and a single HDMI 2.0 port.
The GeForce GTX 950 is scheduled to be released on Aug. 17 just two and a half months after the release of the GTX 980 Ti. The graphics card will succeed the GTX 750 Ti in Nvidia's current mid-range line-up.
