Will the GTX950 with unbalanced cost-performance ratio become NV's next box office poison?

At 9:00 pm on August 20, 2015, NVIDIA officially released the GTX 950 graphics card. The Maxwell architecture family 900 series graphics cards have added a new member , the GTX950 , which also has a good performance. Let's take a look at the capabilities of this graphics card.

GTX 950 Maxwell GM206 architecture has 768 stream processing units, 48 ​​texture units and 32 raster units, default frequency 1024MHz, acceleration frequency 1188MHz, equipped with 2GB GDDR5 video memory, equivalent video memory frequency 6600MHz, bit width 128bit, thermal design power consumption is 90W. From the data, we can see that compared with its predecessor GTX960, GTX950 has the same architecture, number of transistors, and manufacturing process, but the stream processor texture unit and video memory frequency have been reduced to a certain extent. Although the raster unit has not changed, the raster unit and stream processing unit of NVIDIA graphics card are bundled. The reduction of 256 stream processor units is bound to have a certain impact on the display effect. It can be said to be a castrated version of GTX960.

There is no public version of GTX 950 on the market yet, NVIDIA has directly opened up the restrictions on non-public versions, and the first batch of products will be non-public versions, with higher frequency, better heat dissipation and stronger performance. However, the price is not affordable enough. Most non-public version GTX950s on JD.com are priced at 1199 yuan, but some GTX960 graphics cards can be bought at less than 1199 yuan during promotions.

In fact, the launch of the GTX950 graphics card is also to fill the price gap between the GTX750ti and GTX960. NVIDIA has made similar moves before, launching a GTX650ti boost version graphics card between the GTX660 and TGX650ti, successfully filling the price gap and giving users more choices.

The newly launched GTX950 graphics card has a 3Dmark11 score comparable to that of GTX760. The GTX760 graphics card architecture core and power are not as good as those of GTX950 graphics cards. Many friends think that the higher the graphics card bit width, the better. In fact, it is not the case. The low bit width is because NVIDIA's current graphics card Maxwell architecture is better than the previous GTX760, so it is not necessary to use too high parameters to improve performance. With low parameters, power is naturally low, and the heat dissipation is good, and the quietness and other advantages come. The current market price is similar to that of GTX950. In the future, the situation faced by GTX760 in the market will become increasingly difficult.

The price-performance ratio is not high, and the price of 1199 yuan is still a bit high. Some brands of GTX950 graphics cards even sell for 1399 yuan, which can be used to buy GTX960 graphics cards. For users, there are more choices for cards priced at 1,000 yuan. AMD recently launched the R9 300 series "Pirate Island" family graphics cards, among which the price of AMD R9 370/370X is around 1100 yuan. The core Trinidad Pro, core frequency 1070MHz, 1280 stream processors, equipped with 2GB GDDR5 video memory, video memory frequency 5600MHz, video memory width 256bit, has a certain impact on the GTX950 graphics card. What is the market prospect of this newly launched GTX950 graphics card? It depends on whether users will pay for it. Let us wait and see how far the GTX950 at this price can go.

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