It's been over 2 weeks since the launch and still no review. Granted, it's a cut down 960, but most other sites did reviews and we were told we would get one a week later, but no full review still.
And the only reason you would know any of that is by reading reviews from elsewhere. AT seems to ignore the GPU space now unless it's a $400+ GPU.What's there to review? Performance is far from ground-breaking. Power use is meh. Price is too high. The only thing that really sets it (and the 960) apart is that HEVC decoder.
And the only reason you would know any of that is by reading reviews from elsewhere. AT seems to ignore the GPU space now unless it's a $400+ GPU.
Come to think of it though, the 960 didn't get a review either. Guess there is much reduced interest in the lower end segments.
Working on it.
I think a lot of folks at this point would be interested in a thorough examination of the plusses and minus' of 4GB vs 2GB on these new midrange cards.
950 is like the Titan Z launch. The product literally makes no sense considering a card 25% faster comes with a free $50 game and often sells for less than the 950 after rebate. We've had 960s for months selling at retail places like Staples for ~$130-135.
950 should've been a $120 card max.
We've had 960s for months selling at retail places like Staples for ~$130-135.
Anandtech is getting too slow for my taste.. it didn't use to be that way.
lol - what? You seemed to have lost $40 somewhere.
lol - what? You seemed to have lost $40 somewhere.
950 is like the Titan Z launch. The product literally makes no sense considering a card 25% faster comes with a free $50 game and often sells for less than the 950 after rebate. We've had 960s for months selling at retail places like Staples for ~$130-135.
950 should've been a $120 card max.
Anandtech isn't actually Anandtech anymore. It is someone-else tech. It is no more Anandtech than McDonalds belongs to the McDonald's. With that said, I still enjoy the community even if I do it in lurker mode as I have for about the last year. I still enjoy my PC but I keep most of my *noise* about it to a minimum around here since mostly it just invokes the trouble makers.
I would like to see the site get back to more of it's roots and slow down the moderation some.
So yah... I bet we will continue to see the site getting sluggish putting up timely reviews of the hardcore tech and more trendy things like Iphone watches.
Working on it.
No rush. I don't think anyone here plans to buy one. We will just use the review as evidence that Nvidia is fleecing people at those price points.
Honestly the 950 pisses me off. On any other product cycle for Nvidia right now in September should be when we get the sub-$100 cards with that HEVC decoder. But here we are and the only cheaper option that has it is a 950! ARG!
Where is the 940 (aka the 750 replacement but with the nice HEVC decoder)? Does HEVC decoding need X amount of shaders to do the job, or is Nvidia just milking the HTPC market for all it is worth? If it is the former, will we not see that HEVC decoder in a sub-$100 part until something at a 950 level is on sale for under $100?
Those are the questions I want answered. We already know what a waste the 950 is.
It's the latter, phones can decode hevc in hardware currently, though they might not be able to pull 4k 60 fps.
It's fixed function (a pretty good one though):-I was assuming the GTX 960 HEVC decoder was also using shaders instead of dedicated silicon, but I could be wrong. We don't have the Anandtech review yet for the 960 that shows us GPU usage/power consumption during decoding.