NVIDIA to release GeForce GTX 950 SE Graphics Card series

The rumors of a GeForce GTX 950 SE have been heard before, this round it seems legit. In the sub 150 USD bracket Nvidia will be releasing a new product series called GeForce GTX 950 SE. 

The GeForce GTX 950 SE is going to replace the GeForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti which both are first gen Maxwell. The GeForce GTX 950 SE might also be spotted as GeForce GTX 950 LE (light edition). For the GM206 based GeForce GTX 950 SE one extra SMM shader cluster is deactivated bringing 5 out of the 8 shader clusters to active use. Each shader cluster holds 128 shader processors, so that's 640 shader processors in total.

GeForce	GTX 980	GTX 970	GTX 960	GTX 950	GTX 950 SE
GPU	GM204	GM204	GM206	GM206	GM206
CUDA cores	2048	1664	1024	768	640
Texture Units	128	104	64	48	40
Raster Devices	64	64	32	32	32
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Amount of memory	4 GB GDDR5	3.5 GB GDDR5 (effective)	2 / 4 GB GDDR5	128-bit	2 GB GDDR5

For texture memory units you are looking to 40 of them tied towards 32 ROPs. The memory-bus is obviously 128-bit wide with these cards holding 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. These cards would get a 70 Watt TDP powered by a 6-pin power connector. The product would be clocked at roughly 1024 MHz on the base core frequency with a boost closer to 1200 MHz to make up for the lower shader processor count. We 'think' the product will see the daylight in March 2016, CeBIT time.