Asus comes with economical variant of small GTX 950 video card

By admin On Mar 9, 2016

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With the MINI-GTX950-2G, Asus is releasing an economical variant of its GTX 950 video card for small form factor systems. The new model is identical in appearance to the existing GTX950-M-2GD5, but has a TDP of 75 watts, so no PCIe plug is needed.

To build in the old GTX950-M-2GD5 a power plug was required, since the video card has a TDP of 90 watts. Asus has lowered the tdp for the new video card and such a plug is no longer necessary. Motherboards can deliver a maximum of 75 watts via the PCIe slot, which is exactly enough to meet the maximum power requirements of the MINI-GTX950-2G.

It is striking that the new card has a faster gpu boost clock speed than the old model, despite its lower TDP. In OC mode, the boost clock goes up to 1228MHz and the base clock is 1051MHz. In Gaming Mode, this is 1190MHz and 1026MHz respectively. Asus’ previous small GTX 950 had boost and base speeds of 1190 and 1026MHz. The effective speed of the gddr5 memory is the same for both cards at 6610MHz.

Measuring 17.2×11.2x4cm, the small GTX 950 should be suitable for mini-itx systems in small form factor cases. The card has a dvi-d, hdmi 2.0 and displayport 1.2 connection.

Last week, Asus already introduced the GTX950-2G, a video card that looks strikingly similar to the GTX950-2GD5, which has been available for some time, but also with a low TDP of 75 watts. No power plug is required to connect this card either.

The economical GTX 950 variants from Asus are not yet available at the time of writing and it is not known what the suggested retail prices are. The price is expected to be comparable to the price of the current models with a TDP of 150 watts.

There have been rumors for some time about the arrival of a new variant of the GTX 950 that would be released in March. This could possibly go through life as a GTX 950 LE and get fewer Cuda cores. This new GPU would be more economical and cheaper than the current GTX 950. Whether such an LE variant will come is unclear.