EVGA Debuts 8 New Low-Power Nvidia GTX 950 GPUs

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youre right onus, good call, i goofed.

i meant low profile but it came out as single slot included. seems the r7-250 is the best for single slot.
 
Yeah I know, but I think I've heard the 710 is basically a 730? I don't know. But say for a modern day system that runs games from 2005, not bad at all:
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I just love the looks of it 😛 one of a kind. I play a lot of games from around 2005, so this was an attractive option for my one rig. Though realistically my iGPU is better, so it'd be pointless.
 

A motherboard compatible with SLI should be able to handle the 75W per PCIe slot. Such motherboards may have an extra 4-pin molex connector on them for additional PCIe power.


We don't know the price yet, but I'm thinking yes. More importantly, the GTX750Ti is at the margin anyway for demanding games and/or high resolution; i.e. while maximizing bang/buck is good, you absolutely must have a certain level of "bang" regardless of how low the "buck" is. In that context, the GTX950 is much more likely to have enough "bang" for many people.
 
@Onus I agree your point. But remember this is low-end kinda thing and the thing is, suppose the gap at $30-50 which is very likely considering the current price point between both right now...well then, I find it hard to endorse myself or anyone to purchase one of these. Even more so after realizing barebone 750 non Ti goes as low as 70-90 which is awesome for that price.

There are very large segment of people that can only validate such expense on GPU alone. Most of them are MMO players who still use something like HD4670-HD5570-HD6670, that kind of stuff. These are the people I deal with on daily basis. And at this point, even the GTX750Ti are at the top end of what these budget people call best stuff. Any higher than that, even I call it redundant for that purpose. And for people like them, most of them don't have a PSU unit that also provides 6pin GPU power. Heck, they used what came with the case.

Now, if these goes near the price of what 750s release were back then...

I suppose this is the true moment when we need the transition from newer architecture from both sides to come out faster to put pressure on these things.
 
In the cases you are describing, the lesser cards have enough "bang" for their users; they have no reason to spend more, even if bang/buck is higher. For a lot of others, the GTX750Ti may not be quite enough, no matter how cheap it is. These people need more "bang," regardless of the cost, although they may not be able to afford also replacing their weak PSUs.
 
Not many OEM's come with a 350+ PSU, sadly. Some do, like Dell's XPS line. You can often find those with like 460w, or something like that anyway. My nephew's father in law has such a system. One of these, would probably be a great fit, for his rig. He is using my old Zotac GT 240, right now. :lol: Dell sometimes doesn't get along with factory overclocked models, so I would choose those clocked near reference speeds, for him.
 
@Onus Exactly, sir. That's the kind of situation many people faced when opting for modern GPU without replacing other stuff they had. Including PSU. Who can blame them anyway? The more modern GPU today promises nearly 4 times performance at the same wattage to, let's say the old HD4000 series. These are the people from that era. The kind of people who replace only their GPU after 5-10 years span.

TBH I was impressed the old GPU survived that long, considering.

Then I conclude, while the bang/buck would very likely be there, but alas still priced too high for most people in the segment it was meant for.
 


The GT710 is the sucessor to the GT 630 specifically. It's 2x slower than the 384 cuda core GT 730s. However I haven't heard anything about the GT 730 with only 96 cuda cores...

The GT 710 is pretty slow however, it's actually slower than the HD 530 found on Skylake CPUs.
 


but the outputs are only a single slot, so there :na: it still works for a case with only a single slot worth of output space. there is usually room for the cooler. but either way :na:
 

Correct, but Joe's original statement was talking about a pure single-slot card. Not all single-slot cases have that extra room.
 
Technically very impressive for a bus powered card , now we'll have to see what kind of premium markup the retailers put on these - because no doubt they will.
They need to be < $130/£110 to make them a viable buy IMO but I doubt that will happen.
 
Why eight cards?

Because the competition is high and the profit margins low. I don't know why people keep saying "that's too many" ; I'm sure EVGA gave this some thought.

Don't forget some will go into pre-builts, and we have different countries. It's not like these will all end up next to each other on a shelf in Walmart.
 
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