Asus GTX950 with 75w TDP and no 6-PIN

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Asus has revealed a brand new GTX 950 that does not need a 6-pin power connector and only has a TDP of up to 75w. It comes with 2GB of GDDR5 vram, with a Memory clock of 6610MHz, 769 CUDA cores, and a 128bit memory bus. At default mode, its GPU base clock runs at 1026MHz and a gpu boost clock of 1190MHz. Asus has also taken this card with a overclocked mode, with a overclocked GPU base clock up to 1051MHz and a overclocked GPU Boost clock up to 1228MHz. All of this for, a gpu that does not need a 6-pin and with a TDP of 75w. Their similar graphic card another GTX 950, with the exact same default clocks and OC clocks requires a 6-pin and have a TDP of 150w. Looks like these are some cherry picked or more efficient GM206 chips. On the video outputs, there is 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DVI-I, and 1x Display Port. All of this comes with a white fan shroud, so it matches with their Z170 Skylake motherboards. There are no pricing on the cards yet.

 

Asus GTX 950 75w TDP

Default: GPU base: 1026MHz / GPU boost: 1190MHz   (Nvidia's reference specs: GPU base: 1024MHz / GPU boost: 1188MHz)

OC: GPU base: 1051MHz / GPU boost: 1228MHz

VRAM: 2GB GDDR5

Interface: 128Bit memory bus

Cores: 768 CUDA Cores

 

 

Asus GTX 950 75w TDP, no 6-pin

http://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/GTX950-2G/specifications/

 

Asus GTX 950 150w TDP, 1x 6-pin

http://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/GTX950-2GD5/specifications/

 

Nvidia GTX 950 reference

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-950/specifications

 

 

 

[don_svetlio]

no 6-pin, so no OC so lower performance?....why?....

[Stefan1024]

Cards like this should only be produced with passive coolers. Or they need to be super cheap. It's non of the so I won't buy one.

[Kobathor]

2 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

Cards like this should only be produced with passive coolers. Or they need to be super cheap. It's non of the so I won't buy one.

Like that passive R7 250 from Sapphire.. I think that card even needs a 6-pin power connector, but it's passively cooled.

[AHaskin14]

I won't argue this. There was a time in my life when I had a hand me down pre built pc with no extra power connectors so I had to get a card with no required protectors. My budget would have allowed me a gtx 650/ti but I was stuck with a 640. Not a bad system at all though. Turns out a Q6600 and GT640 make for a nice low end gaming pc and it fueled my needs for over a year.

[MEC-777]

This is a perfect upgrade for cheap pre-builts, just like the 750ti was. Who cares if you can't OC it. It's not meant for OCing. It's a budget low-power card. I like it.

[VagabondWraith]

I think it's pretty cool and a nice replacement for the 750 Ti.

[Thiback]

Wouldn't this be a response from Nvidia to the recent Polaris GPU demo that was showing a very low power draw ?
Is it that Nvidia communicates to the public that they're able to reach TDP as low as AMD's next generation but with their current Maxwell architecture ? 

[Heesleemer]

3 minutes ago, Thiback said:

Wouldn't this be a response from Nvidia to the recent Polaris GPU demo that was showing a very low power draw ?
Is it that Nvidia communicates to the public that they're able to reach TDP as low as AMD's next generation but with their current Maxwell architecture ? 

no because the 750 and 750 ti had no power connector either 

with that said, I loved my 750 ti, sold it my friend's brother who was building his first PC though. Cool card (literally). Great for an HTPC and light gaming 

[DocSwag]

8 minutes ago, Thiback said:

Wouldn't this be a response from Nvidia to the recent Polaris GPU demo that was showing a very low power draw ?
Is it that Nvidia communicates to the public that they're able to reach TDP as low as AMD's next generation but with their current Maxwell architecture ? 

No, not quite, because Maxwell was optimized for 28nm. 28nm was fairly mature when Maxwell was designed, so all the little quirks and tricks were well understood by everyone. This was why Nvidia was able to squeeze so much efficiency out of it... They look at all the little quirks and stuff of it and optimized Maxwell around that. 16nm, on the other hand, is still fairly new and so Nvidia can't do the same thing they did with Maxwell on it. Also, even with 75 watts it should still be a little more power draw than Polaris.

All in all, I don't think Nvidia will be able to achieve a large efficiency drop from Maxwell to Pascal.

[pit5000]

correct me if i'm wrong, but this would be the cheapest way to get HDMI 2.0 into an HTPC?

 

Or would Thunderbolt 3 be even cheap when that's available on motherboards?

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Asus GTX 950 75w TDP

Default: GPU base: 1026MHz / GPU boost: 1190MHz   (Nvidia's reference specs: GPU base: 1024MHz / GPU boost: 1188MHz)

OC: GPU base: 1051MHz / GPU boost: 1228MHz

VRAM: 2GB GDDR5

Interface: 128Bit memory bus

Cores: 768 CUDA Cores

They have a another card, with the exact same default and OC specs, but that card needs a 6 pin and has a TDP of 150w.

[Misanthrope]

2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

This is a perfect upgrade for cheap pre-builts, just like the 750ti was. Who cares if you can't OC it. It's not meant for OCing. It's a budget low-power card. I like it.

Forget oc without doing anything my 950 turbo boosts to like 1300ish GPU clock. At this level of performance its a lot more noticeable.

[Zodiark1593]

3 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

no 6-pin, so no OC so lower performance?....why?....

Upgrade for pre-builts with Potato Power Supplies. For that level of power use, the 950 is quite a strong performer as well (at least until Polaris hits). Most older (2-3 year old) games can run well on Ultra settings at 1920 x 1080, and with reduced settings, performs competently in today's games. That's well above what many pre-builts can claim.

[MEC-777]

35 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Forget oc without doing anything my 950 turbo boosts to like 1300ish GPU clock. At this level of performance its a lot more noticeable.

I know, but generally people don't buy these cards for OCing.

[NateGSR117]

This is neat, could be useful somehow to someone out there.

[Watermelon Guy]

3 minutes ago, NateGSR117 said:

This is neat, could be useful somehow to someone out there.

Someone who want to get into pc gaming, but does not have the power supply to run it, Someone who has a basic desktop.

[Fgtfv567]

3 hours ago, VagabondWraith said:

I think it's pretty cool and a nice replacement for the 750 Ti.

 

3 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

This is a perfect upgrade for cheap pre-builts, just like the 750ti was. Who cares if you can't OC it. It's not meant for OCing. It's a budget low-power card. I like it.

I was just about to mention how this could be a replacement for the 750 Ti and how it can upgrade office PCs to alright gaming PCs. Only problems would be how much it'd cost, because a Zotac 750 Ti can go for 100 bucks, and if the card will be short enough fit inside of most cases

[connorpiper]

I used a 750Ti without a dedicated power connector and even though the TDP was very low, the GPU still had many issues when playing games that required a lot of GPU power. Generally it stopped a 60% usage.  

[Coaxialgamer]

I can pretty much garantee it will almsot never boost up and won't OC

[MEC-777]

7 minutes ago, Fgtfv567 said:

 

I was just about to mention how this could be a replacement for the 750 Ti and how it can upgrade office PCs to alright gaming PCs. Only problems would be how much it'd cost, because a Zotac 750 Ti can go for 100 bucks, and if the card will be short enough fit inside of most cases

I know. It's never been cheaper to get into PC gaming than now. On my local classifieds you can grab a retired workstation/office PC with decent specs (Core 2 Quad or older Xeon or older Core i5's with 4-8GB ram) for anywhere between $100-200. As long as they have a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot and not a completely potato PSU, you can slap a used $100-120 750Ti in it and go to town gaming.

[MEC-777]

4 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

I can pretty much garantee it will almsot never boost up and won't OC

Built a budget gaming PC for a neighbour not too long ago. Went with an EVGA 750Ti OC model which didn't have any power connector. It was boosting itself to over 1200 on the core. Surprised the heck out of me. lol.

 

How about let's wait for reviews and see what it actually does.  

[Coaxialgamer]

12 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Built a budget gaming PC for a neighbour not too long ago. Went with an EVGA 750Ti OC model which didn't have any power connector. It was boosting itself to over 1200 on the core. Surprised the heck out of me. lol.

 

How about let's wait for reviews and see what it actually does.  

The thing is , the gtx 950 uses quite a bit more power than the gtx 750ti though..

[Sharkyx1]

If it actually hits 75w thats gonna be hard on cheaper mobos no?

[MEC-777]

12 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

The thing is , the gtx 950 uses quite a bit more power than the gtx 750ti though..

It's also more power efficient.