We’ve known for a couple months now that NVIDIA is planning to release a couple lower-end Maxwell 2 GPUs; namely, the GTX 950 and 950 Ti.
Their purpose is to provide Maxwell 2 powered alternatives to the GTX 750 Ti and 750, cards released in mid-February of last year – the GTX 960 being a significantly more expensive card by comparison.
Until recently however, reports of a GTX 950 Ti have been nothing more than hearsay. The GTX 950’s specs and release date, August 17th, have for the most part been confirmed, but the Ti variant has remained an enigma.
It’s good news for those of you looking for an upgrade, particularly if you’re part of team green and would prefer to avoid AMD’s options, for whatever reason.
Hermitage Akihabara reports that NVIDIA still plans to release the Ti, but is still working on refining it at the moment.
It’s pretty obvious that the GTX 950 Ti is set to fill the relatively large performance gap between the GTX 960 and soon-to-release GTX 950 – all three of which are based on the GM206 GPU.
GeForce GTX 960, 950 Ti and 950 specs, as compared to GTX 750 Ti and 750.
Here’s hoping that the GTX 950 Ti comes closer to the GTX 960 in performance and the GTX 950 in price, and not the other way around.
All in all, lower end cards are where a good majority of the market resides, so NVIDIA really does need a solution or two.
Source: KitGuru
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To recap, if I am correct!
Lets wait with the cheaper and better card until we have sold the expensive and less powerful one first so the same people can now spent more money again to “upgrade” to the better one which we should have released in the first place. Makes sense?