We first got wind of Nvidia preparing GeForce GTX 950 and 950 Ti graphics cards back at the start of July. At that time we heard that the successors to the GeForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti cards would be revealed shortly. With online retail listings, packaging and product shots starting to appear now the release/launch of these graphics cards appears to be imminent.

ASUS STRIX GTX 950 listings

VideoCardz has spotted two European online retailer listings for the ASUS STRIX GTX 950 graphics card. Below you can see one from a Lithuanian tech retail site. It lists the ASUS STRIX GTX950 DC2OC-2GD5 GAMING card at a rather pricy €240. From the card naming scheme we can tell this is one of the STRIX range, where cooling fans don’t spin up until necessary – active cooling is usually required only in 3D applications. Also we can guess that this card is equipped with the ASUS DirectCU II cooling solution and is overclocked straight from the box. The example listed comes with 3GB of GDDR5 memory.

In a Finnish online retail listing, below, the very same ASUS SKU appears to be listed at a wallet wilting €281.

PNY GeForce GTX 950 pictured

Adding fuel to the rumours of an imminent appearance, a photo showing a PNY GeForce GTX 950 and box has been published by VideoCardz. PNY looks to have designed a single fan cooled graphics card based on the GTX 950 GPU.

As mentioned previously, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 is thought to be based upon a cut down version of the GM206-300 GPU, which features in the current GeForce GTX 960. Its ‘GM206-250’ GPU will offer a maximum of 2GB of graphics memory via its 128-bit bus and is expected to offer 768 CUDA cores in the non-Ti variant.