Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 review, the $150 GPU to beat

It’s not quite the same story with less expensive mid-range cards, however; AMD typically has the value for money advantage once prices drop below £180.

Nvidia may be launching a slightly cheaper graphics card this week according to reports, with the addition of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950.

The GeForce GTX 950 has a total of 768 CUDA processing cores, a new video engine that supports the H.265 video standard, and performance that is triple the speed of the older GeForce GTX 650 chip. There are also fewer texture units – 48 rather than the 64 found in the GTX 960. As compared to the already available GTX 750Ti which retails for $120 and GTX 960 which is retailing for $200, the GTX 950 is a steal and is specifically designed for gamers who are on a tight budget. The Video Cardz website has provided a handy comparison tablet to see the main differences of the cards in question.

Nvidia is also making it easy for users to access these low latency settings by adding a new option to the GeForce Experience graphics tuner. The update will allow PC gamers to play multiplayer games in co-op mode, without the players having to purchase the game separately. None of AMD’s 300-series cards support HDMI 2.0, meaning you’re forced to use DisplayPort or drop down to 30fps playback on an ultra-HD TV. Purportedly too, the price will be around 20,000 yen or $160, which would make it a little more expensive than the GTX 750 it is set to replace. It is unknown if the new graphics card will have the same power requirements, but chances are high it will be a sub-100W solution.

The new feature will also only work with games which support GameStream. This is incredibly difficult to test, but it will likely come as good news to anyone seriously invested in the frantic clicking action of MOBA titles.

But the rumour hill has been warming up, as packaging shots have also been unveiled depicting the ASUS Strix GTX 950 and Gigabyte and Zotac versions, which have all been leaked online. Stream will send out an email to whichever party you want to share your gameplay experience with, and as long as they have Windows 7 or above, a Core i7 or equivalent processor, and Google’s Chrome browser, they’ll be able to play as if they were sitting in front of your machine (albeit with whatever latency the network imposes, obviously).