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Any news on the ASUS GTX950-2g retail release date?

Vonkhan

Vonkhan

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I've been waiting on ASUS's GTX950-2G (75w, doesn't require a 6-pin connector) to dump into my old Dell pre-built.

Any word on when it'll be available? Getting very antsy over it.
 
They were announced not long ago. Best bet is to keep pegging Newegg/Amazon until they appear. Or can you buy from EVGA directly?
 
Vonkhan said:
I've been waiting on ASUS's GTX950-2G (75w, doesn't require a 6-pin connector) to dump into my old Dell pre-built.

Any word on when it'll be available? Getting very antsy over it.
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If you waited this long, skipped 750/750Ti which came out February 2014, might as well wait 2-3 more months for 75W Pascal and Polaris 11. GTX950 itself came out August 2015 and even now the best sales on it are $120, barely down from its $159 MSRP. Maxwell architecture is now 2 years old and since it's NV, not AMD we are talking about, ideally you want the latest NV architecture based on how NV assigns driver priority. 2GB of VRAM is also a sore point that should be addressed with Polaris and 950 Pascal successors. If you can afford to wait, I would.
 
Exactly. Wait a little longer. The node change means the performance/watt should go up substantially so you will get a lot more 'oomph' in that 75W envelope.
 
Normally, if you need an upgrade now, there's no point in waiting. You can always upgrade again when the need arises. Also, what CPU do you have - is it going to be fast enough for a card faster than GTX 950? If not, no point in waiting for faster cards.
 
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lehtv said:
Normally, if you need an upgrade now, there's no point in waiting. You can always upgrade again when the need arises. Also, what CPU do you have - is it going to be fast enough for a card faster than GTX 950? If not, no point in waiting for faster cards.
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Though far from a cheap option, the beauty of the desktop is you can reverse your build mistakes just like that.

I'd wait though. Even if your Dell can't fully utilize new architectures, that 950 is likely to be had for much cheaper after Pascal hits.
 
lehtv said:
Normally, if you need an upgrade now, there's no point in waiting. You can always upgrade again when the need arises. Also, what CPU do you have - is it going to be fast enough for a card faster than GTX 950? If not, no point in waiting for faster cards.
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- Possibly longer up-to-date driver support on Pascal/Polaris vs. Maxwell
- Possibly more than 2GB of VRAM in the $130-150 space
- Even lower power usage
- More updated video codec engines for 4K playback
- HDMI 2.0A + HDR display support
- DisplayPort 1.3 support
- Even cheaper fire sale GTX950 because Polaris 11 will put pricing pressure on them.

Would you have said that towards the end of HD6000/GTX500 series generation, it wasn't worth waiting for HD7750-7850? Would you say that towards the end of GTX750/750Ti life-cycle it wasn't worth waiting for GTX950?

It's been almost 1 year since 950 came out and prices on it have barely budged. I don't see how suddenly not waiting for when next gen cards is poor advice when they are going to be announced around Computex.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...to-announce-new-video-cards-at-computex-2016/
 
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I'm not so sure on waiting. Generally it's a good idea, but the fact that nVidia is launching a new SKU less than two months prior to the supposed launch at Computex doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence that GP107 with be launching in early summer.

@Vohkan, are you size restricted to short/half height? You could always just pick up a standard 950 and use a dual or even single Molex to 6 pin adapter. They're not ideal, but they get the power in the plug and you can always dial in the power level you want from there.
 
Personally, I'd expect such a card to be way more compact than it is. Double fan cooling solution for 75w tdp, really?

Bad design, imo.
 
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Vonkhan said:
I've been waiting on ASUS's GTX950-2G (75w, doesn't require a 6-pin connector) to dump into my old Dell pre-built.

Any word on when it'll be available? Getting very antsy over it.
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Not worth the purchase. We're in mid-April, new 14/16finfet GPUs are launching in less than 2 months and should offer substantially improved performance in a lower power envelope.

DX12 is showing Maxwell to be quite the lame duck so it's best to purchase NVIDIA GPUs right at launch. Near the end of their cycle, they tend to get rather long in the tooth.

Given how AMD handle things, a cheap Polaris 11 based Graphics Card will likely last you for far longer than a cheap Pascal based Graphics Card.

Since AMD have divided their GPU segment into RTG, AMD drivers have been superior to NVIDIA drivers as well.

Quite frankly, it seems to me that the tables are turning in favor of AMD so it really is best to wait.
 
Mahigan,

Agree on all points. I also frequent Geforce forums, and have seen quite a lot of bad press regarding recent drivers, especially on older, Fermi/Kepler SKUs.
 
Thanks for the replies all. My dilema is that Dark Souls 3 is out and for now, I have to make do with a Dell Optiplex 9020 with these specs:

I7 cpu 3.6
R7 250 2GB (full height)
250W PSU

Quite a dilemma as you can see ... I thought of using a gtx 750, but don't want to spend the $$$ for a GPU that already pretty aged.

I'd rather have a GPU sooner rather than later, but I also have to look at the value of the card - something that might get me thru the next couple of years.
 
Vonkhan said:
Thanks for the replies all. My dilema is that Dark Souls 3 is out and for now, I have to make do with a Dell Optiplex 9020 with these specs:

I7 cpu 3.6
R7 250 2GB (full height)
250W PSU

Quite a dilemma as you can see ... I thought of using a gtx 750, but don't want to spend the $$$ for a GPU that already pretty aged.

I'd rather have a GPU sooner rather than later, but I also have to look at the value of the card - something that might get me thru the next couple of years.
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You can probably use the existing 250W supply OK with some of the lower 950's out there - look for ones with 6 instead of 8-pin connector.

Your PSU have a 6-pin at all? I just looked it up and it looks a lot more proprietary than usual! My last Optiplex was similar but still had SATA and a single 6-pin - handled a Radeon 7770 all day long.

If not, it's 750TI or bust. Scour your local used market, 750TI's can be had on the cheap and I trust them a bit more on the used market because low power = less heat = more general reliability.... 😉
 
Thanks guys - just pulled the trigger on the asus 950-2g

I looked inside the rig and there are no 6 pins even - Dell's gone full dictator on the 9020s.

And now we wait, delivery b/w 19th and 23rd
 
Vonkhan said:
Thanks guys - just pulled the trigger on the asus 950-2g

I looked inside the rig and there are no 6 pins even - Dell's gone full dictator on the 9020s.

And now we wait, delivery b/w 19th and 23rd
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Enjoy! Let us know how it goes! :thumbsup:

I still wish they'd make a low-profile version of this card... Oh well. Maybe the next generation will have my winner. 😀
 
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Review is up.

ASUS is first to market with a custom version of the GeForce GTX 950 that doesn't require an additional PCI-Express connector, so the goal of their engineers was to get the card's power draw down from around 100-110 W to 75 W. They achieved this by setting the card's power limit to 75 W, which in turn will cause NVIDIA's Boost Technology to respect this limit when selecting clocks and voltages to boost the card beyond its base clock.
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Dimensions of the card are 21.0 cm x 12.0 cm.
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Okay, it doesn't require an additional plug, but it is power limited and quite big. Hmm. Not exactly happy with the design. I'd rather have all that power flow thru a separate molex cable. Did I mention, it's only 2 gigs? Seriously for the money, they could have added another 2 gigs and sort of, give it more purpose; CUDA devs would of certainly been happy. Buying 2 gigs in 05/2016 again, seriously? Especially, when it is a known fact, that extra memory can be cached conveniently in modern games, putting less stress on system memory.

Not worth the money, imo. Definitely better to wait for Polaris/Pascal, if you want a truly compact, power-efficient card. Or just buy a regular model for less money and manually power-limit it to 75% if your PSU is from 2000's or something. Cheaper to buy a molex power splitter and connect it properly, if you are lacking cables. In all honesty, the previous 750 ti design looked way sexier to me, except for the updated video decoding block and 25% lower average performance, but you can find it for much less (well, at least that looks like a proper energy-saving card, check the power graphs, that ASUS uses about twice as much power in nearly every metric, except for gaming; what's exactly the point of this card?). Again, you're better off with a regular 950 instead. This one will certainly drive the demand/price up. Don't be among those fools. This card offers essentially no additional value over the regular model, just artificially being limited in total power consumption and thus allowing it to feed off the motherboard 24 PIN cable. That's all, there is to. Same binning.

But nice attempt, ASUS. I am not buying, try harder next time 😉

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nvgpu said:
The Asus card is the same PCB as the Strix card, it's too big and long.
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Yeah, they figured why the extra costs? When we can just mod the bios and release it as is, minus the pcb connector? They are charging extra for the effort, in the mean time. Just lazy.
 
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