Sunday, March 6th 2016
ASUS Intros GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card with Slot-only Power
ASUS unveiled the a new GeForce GTX 950 graphics card that relies entirely on PCIe slot power. The GTX950-2G features a full-height, dual-slot design, with a simple monolithic heatsink cooling the GPU; and a pair of 70 mm spinners cooling it. The cooler shroud follows the same design theme as ASUS' mainline Z170 series motherboards, such as the Z170-A. The VRM design by ASUS keeps power draw of the GPU under 75W, and hence relies entirely on PCIe slot power. The GPU is clocked at 1026 MHz, with 1190 MHz GPU Boost, and 6.60 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. The company did not reveal pricing.
33 Comments on ASUS Intros GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card with Slot-only Power
Hopefully TPU gets a sample :=)
trog
I'm not sure what you mean by throw it into an Opteron, as that's a CPU, but regarding that Tweakton's review showed it barely cresting 50c while gaming. A card with such a small heatsink you really shouldn't overclock on it anyways. Could probably make due with putting a 120mm fan next to it or something.
This 750ti is a good example of what I'm talking about.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127836
None of the 950s have stellar FPS/W. Lower than the 750Ti anyway, which barely runs on the slot alone. So how are they doing it? If you could make VRMs that save that much power why isn't everyone using them?
The only possibility is they have the specs wrong or they use another sub version of the 206 Chip.
I can't imagine a selection for that power grade for the initial GM206 Chip, the results would be below 0.01% or even less ^^
There are the rumors about the LE Version where they deactivated some more parts.
But in that case they would have reduced bandwith etc. -> wrong specs
They have to do some changes with the GM206 chip to get the LE Version so they could possibly re-spinnend the chip especially for the 950LE and thought nice thats to good working lets do it also for the standard 950 and side effect we have some more stand against AMDs 75W solutions.
= Get your Hands on one and remove the cooler and check the markings if it's the same(=specs wrong) or something new (specs true) ;)
I see the point. A stock 950 is better than a 750ti, by almost 20% @ 1080p according to TPU and an overclocked 950 (the Zotac) is better than even a 760. With clocks being almost the same as the Zotac it could help in small niche situations. Bottom line though, it's just market saturation. I'd rather have a low profile card instead.