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NVIDIA today launched their latest mainstream graphics card, the GeForce GTX 950, which features a suggested retail price of $159 and uses the GM206 Maxwell GPU. That GPU might sound familiar to those that keep up with the graphics card market as it is the same exact GPU that NVIDIA is using on the GeForce GTX 960 ($199). NVIDIA disabled some things to help differentiate this card from the GeForce GTX 960 and was able to bring it to market at a lower price point...



Article Title: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card Review
Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/nvidia-gefo ... 950_170811

One thing I never understood....how does disabling features on the same chip make something cheaper? If the features are there and not physically removed wouldn't it be the same price point?

I imagine the brilliant people out there will make a custom firmware or a patch to re-enable the features if they are truly still there.