{"id":80433,"date":"2015-08-24T03:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80433"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:59:05","slug":"gtx-950-available-for-pre-order-local-pricing-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80433-gtx-950-available-for-pre-order-local-pricing-announced","title":{"rendered":"GTX 950 available for pre-order: local pricing announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has unveiled its latest GeForce GTX gaming-focused graphics card \u2013 the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80301-nvidia-launches-geforce-gtx-950.html\" target=\"_blank\">GeForce GTX 950<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cards features Maxwell 2 architecture, and comes in as a cheaper alternative to the existing GeForce GTX 960.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia said\u00a0the card will provide 60fps gaming with low latency,\u00a0with its performance 3-times that of existing gaming consoles.<\/p>\n<p>The GTX 950\u2019s specifications are detailed in the table below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #0099ff; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<div align=\"center\">Nvidia GeForce GTX 950<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"54%\">Cuda cores<\/td>\n<td width=\"46%\">768<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Core clock<\/td>\n<td>1024MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Boost clock<\/td>\n<td>1188MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Memory bus width<\/td>\n<td>128-bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>VRAM<\/td>\n<td>2GB GDDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Architecture<\/td>\n<td>Maxwell 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GPU<\/td>\n<td>GM206<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TDP<\/td>\n<td>90W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#0099FF\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>SA pre-order\u00a0price (Evetech)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evetech.co.za\/PC-Hardware\/msi-gtx-950-1305.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MSI GTX 950 2GB<\/a><\/td>\n<td>R2,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evetech.co.za\/PC-Hardware\/msi-gtx-950-armor-1304.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MSI GTX 950 Armor Overclocked 2GB<\/a><\/td>\n<td>R2,799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evetech.co.za\/PC-Hardware\/msi-gtx-950-gaming-1303.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MSI GTX 950 Gaming Overclocked 2GB<\/a><\/td>\n<td>R2,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/135954-nvidia-launches-geforce-gtx-950-plus-sa-pre-order-pricing.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Let&#8217;s keep the GPU conversation going<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80375-greenland-baffin-and-ellesmere-amds-newest-gpus.html\">Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere: AMD\u2019s newest GPUs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80049-nvidia-still-working-on-the-gtx-950-ti.html\">NVIDIA still working on the GTX 950 Ti<\/a><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local price inflation sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,14592,47,1771,14590,1085,15493,1969,45,6524],"class_list":["post-80433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-gm206","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-cards","tag-gtx-950","tag-hardware-2","tag-msi-gtx-950-2gb","tag-news-2","tag-nvidia","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80433","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=80433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}