Wednesday, February 17th 2016
NVIDIA Readies GeForce GTX 950 SE Graphics Card
NVIDIA is planning to shake up its sub-$150 graphics card lineup with a new SKU carved out of the current $140 GeForce GTX 950. The company is planning to retire the GTX 750 Ti, and is looking for a true replacement to the GTX 750 (non-Ti). The GTX 750 duo are based on the slightly older first-gen "Maxwell" architecture. The new GeForce GTX 950 SE, or GTX 950 LE, as it's being called; will be a further crippled GTX 950, rather than its better-endowed sibling (currently being served by the GTX 960).
The GeForce GTX 950 SE will feature one less streaming multiprocessor Maxwell (SMM) than even the current GTX 950, 5 out of 8 physically present on the GM206 silicon. This works out to a CUDA core count of 640. The TMU count is proportionately lower at 40, ROP count at 32, and memory bus width at 128-bit; holding 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. With a typical board power expected to be around 70W, cards by various AIC partners will either make do with single 6-pin PCIe power inputs, or completely lack them. The GPU and memory clock speeds are expected to be slightly lower than those of the GTX 950, too. NVIDIA could launch this SKU some time in March.
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The GeForce GTX 950 SE will feature one less streaming multiprocessor Maxwell (SMM) than even the current GTX 950, 5 out of 8 physically present on the GM206 silicon. This works out to a CUDA core count of 640. The TMU count is proportionately lower at 40, ROP count at 32, and memory bus width at 128-bit; holding 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. With a typical board power expected to be around 70W, cards by various AIC partners will either make do with single 6-pin PCIe power inputs, or completely lack them. The GPU and memory clock speeds are expected to be slightly lower than those of the GTX 950, too. NVIDIA could launch this SKU some time in March.
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I am thinking of getting him another 4GB of RAM and another card that performs better but doesn't exceed the PSU's power of 300W, altogether.
Since I let him use my STEAM library of games, he might have some AAA titles under his collar, so I hope the 950 SE is good enough for his games and stays within the PSU's limit.
There was a rumor last year about the new revision of GTX 750 based on lower-quality maxwell chips, but I've never seen one with my own eyes.
I can only assume that this is what it ultimately became.
These cards are supposedly on the market already and are much more probable option for HTPC, than a more expensive GTX 950 SE (though an extra SMM block will give it a nice ~20-25% boost in games).
32 ROPs vs 16 ROPs on the new GPU is the only real difference, but I doubt it will make a significant impact on performance delta between GTX750Ti and GTX950SE (except some very-very specific benchmarks).
As GTX 750Ti, this card is the best candidate for a low-budget gaming VGA, but then it is only good for 1080p gaming which HDMI 1.4 is more than capable of providing.
www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960-oem/specifications
gtx950se if the price is right would be a perfect card for htpcs(hdmi2.0, hw decoder for hevc,vp9 and it has hw hevc encoder too). But I guess it will be over $150, which will be no point because you can get normal gtx950 almost the same dollar and not much more gtx960...
In order to get HDMI 2.0 at the moment your only options are high end ATX Z170 gaming motherboards, or full height graphics cards, both of which mean you have to use large cases.
A low profile GTX 950 SE would be ideal allowing HDMI 2.0 in sub 10L cases.
Very cool to see this coming back, want to see a review and the performance of the card!!! If they enable SLI, that would be pretty sweet in my book for my specific needs!
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The only problem I have right now with this card is the name...I mean when I see something like SE on the end I expect it to be an upper version not a lower one. Could they not have called it even something like LE or similar. I get they didn't want to drop it I tot he 40's range but this is a little confusing just going on name alone.
The later gen Maxwells do not seem to be doing better in FPS/watt vs the 750s. Looks like this will just miss being a slot only powered card.
EDIT: Just realized you might have been thinking of the SE. I would expect it to be similar to a 370.
Cache.
The GFlops and Bandwith are depended on the cache size and speed.
The GM107 was also designed for their professional cards, the GM206 is not.
The only thing that saves the 950 from performing worse than the 750Ti is the difference caused by memory bandwidth and the bigger Render Config.
If you remove that we can finally prove that it is slower in several cases^^
128 bit: 86.4 GB/s vs 106 GB/s
Shading Units: 640 vs 768
e.t.c.
and the difference:
L2 cache: 2MB vs 1MB
And it is propagated as a new product .Horror offering us a the garbage in the stars . link has nothing to do with the article !
Then use this MSI GTX 950 GAMING$120 -AR$30 and this XFX R7 370 $120 -AR$15. On 1080p adjust settings to provide playable 50-60FpS (basically as [H] does) on the 950, then use those same settings for the 370 (Apples to Apples). How far apart do you think they are over a mix of like 10 titles? Then pull power usage over all those titles and see the average variance. I bet it's not much, perhaps like having a 30W bulb on when ever you game over a month.
Testing with a i5-6400 2.7 Ghz (up to 3.30GHz) working its single channel DDR3 memory and all the other shortcoming such mainstream box enacts. It's way different than the test system most all reviewers test these with, some OC i7 @ 4.7Ghz and ton of fast ram. In reality that Inspiron isn't all that inspiring.
Edit: Well found something out on that Dell Inspiron 3650, it has a tiny (3 1/4'' x 2 1/2'' x 8 3/4'' L) proprietary PSU with 240W MAX Total Power. So a usable example on that account.