NVIDIA this morning is announcing the GeForce GTX 950, which they are advertising as the successor to the GeForce GTX 650 that's still one of the most commonly used graphics cards by gamers. The GeForce GTX 950 is going to retail for less than $200 while claiming to deliver three times the performance of the GTX 650 and twice the performance efficiency of this former mid-range Kepler graphics card. The past few days I've been testing out the EVGA GeForce GTX 950 to great success under Linux.

The GeForce GTX 950 was described by NVIDIA in their briefing as "the perfect gateway to GeForce gaming" and being a great match for current games as well as next-generation games. This Maxwell-based graphics card uses the GM206 GPU and is a step ahead of last year's GeForce GTX 750 that rolled out the original Maxwell architecture.