{"id":80049,"date":"2015-08-17T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80049"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T08:42:56","slug":"nvidia-still-working-on-the-gtx-950-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80049-nvidia-still-working-on-the-gtx-950-ti","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA still working on the GTX 950 Ti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for a couple months now that NVIDIA is planning to release a couple lower-end <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maxwell_%28microarchitecture%29#Second_generation_Maxwell_.28GM20x.29\" target=\"_blank\">Maxwell 2<\/a> GPUs; namely, the GTX 950 and 950 Ti.<\/p>\n<p>Their purpose is to provide Maxwell 2 powered alternatives to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeForce_700_series#GeForce_700_.287xx.29_series\" target=\"_blank\">GTX 750 Ti<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeForce_700_series#GeForce_700_.287xx.29_series\" target=\"_blank\">750<\/a>, cards released in mid-February of last year \u2013 the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/71593-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-sa-price-roundup-performance.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTX 960<\/a> being a significantly more expensive card by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently however, reports of a GTX 950 Ti have been nothing more than hearsay. The GTX 950&#8217;s specs and release date, August 17th, have for the most part been <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/78943-geforce-gtx-950s-specifications-confirmed-launching-august-17th.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a>, but the Ti variant has remained an enigma.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good news for those of you looking for an upgrade, particularly if you&#8217;re part of team green and would prefer to avoid AMD&#8217;s options, for whatever reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdm.or.jp\/voices\/2015\/0812\/127248\" target=\"_blank\">Hermitage Akihabara<\/a> reports that NVIDIA still plans to release the Ti, but is still working on refining it at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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 \u2013 all three of which are based on the GM206 GPU.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80053\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-950-960-and-950-Ti-Specs-Table.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80053\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80053\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-950-960-and-950-Ti-Specs-Table.png\" alt=\"NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 960 and 950 Ti Specs - Table\" width=\"600\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GeForce GTX 960, 950 Ti and 950 specs, as compared to GTX 750 Ti and 750.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, lower end cards are where a good majority of the market resides, so NVIDIA really does need a solution or two.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/components\/graphic-cards\/anton-shilov\/nvidias-geforce-gtx-950-ti-is-still-in-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More GPU-related news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/79865-nvidia-announces-gtx-990m-to-be-more-powerful-than-gtx-980m-sli.html\">NVIDIA announces GTX 990M: to be more powerful than GTX 980M SLI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/79745-from-an-r9-fury-to-r9-fury-x-tool-unlocks-the-cores-of-select-radeon-cards.html\">From an R9 Fury to R9 Fury X: tool unlocks the cores of select Radeon cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/79691-amds-amazing-ultra-small-pc-the-quantum-may-not-happen.html\">AMD\u2019s amazing ultra-small PC, the Quantum, may not happen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who can&#8217;t quite afford the GTX 960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,14592,47,6292,15331,15333,14590,14588,15335,1085,1969,45],"class_list":["post-80049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-gm206","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-card","tag-gtx-750","tag-gtx-750-ti","tag-gtx-950","tag-gtx-950-ti","tag-gtx-960","tag-hardware-2","tag-news-2","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}