Nvidia Launches The GeForce GTX 950 For $ 159

True to what we had earlier reported , Nvidia has launched its budget friendly card today , the GeForce GTX 950 featuring Maxwell V2.

The Maxwell based GeForce GTX 950 is NVIDIA’s newest entry in the sub-$200 range and competes with AMD’s R7 370 , and features huge improvements over its predecessors the Fermi 650 and Maxwell V1 750.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 is based on the GM206-250-A1 graphics core which is a cut down SKU of the full GM206 GPU. The card features features six SMM units that house 768 CUDA Cores, 48 texture mapping units and 32 raster operation units. The card comes with a core clock of 1024 MHz and 1188 MHz boost. On the memory side, the 950 will feature 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM that operates along a 128-bit bus, running at 6.6 GHz and a maximum bandwidth output of 105.6 GB/s. The GTX 950 has a 90W TDP and will need a 6 pin connector.

	GTX 960	GTX 950	GTX 750 Ti	GTX 650 Ti
CUDA Cores	1024	768	640	768
Texture Units	64	48	40	64
ROPs	32	32	16	16
Core Clock	1126MHz	1024MHz	1020MHz	925MHz
Boost Clock	1178MHz	1188MHz	1085MHz	N/A
Memory Clock	7GHz GDDR5	6.6GHz GDDR5	5.4GHz GDDR5	5.4GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
VRAM	2GB	2GB	2GB	1GB
FP64	1/32 FP32	1/32 FP32	1/32 FP32	1/24 FP32
TDP	120W	90W	60W	110W
Architecture	Maxwell 2	Maxwell 2	Maxwell 1	Kepler
GPU	GM206	GM206	GM107	GK106
Transistor Count	2.94B	2.94B	1.87B	2.54B
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm
Launch Date	01/22/15	08/20/15	02/18/14	10/09/12
Launch Price	$199	$159	$149	$149