GeForce GTX 960M and 950M Chips Round Out Nvidia’s Mobile GPU Lineup

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Two new GPUs for laptops

Nvidia today rolled out its GeForce GTX 960M and 950M GPUs, the latest additions to its GTX 900M Series. The new GPUs bring up the rear of Nvidia's latest generation of laptop graphics, slipping underneath the GeForce GTX 965M, 970M, and flagship 980M. You'll mostly find the new parts in thin and light gaming laptops where Nvidia promises they'll deliver "never-before-seen levels of gaming performance" for the category.
"Today’s launch is with immediate availability too, so gamers today have more thin and light gaming notebooks to choose from than ever before. In fact, many of them have now joined the 'size does matter' club which means their notebooks are less than one-inch thick. So, if you’ve been itching to take your gaming on the go with a portable notebook design, now’s your chance to play with the big boys!," Nvidia says.
Nvidia hasn't updated its GPU page with specs for the new parts yet, though it did reveal some supported features, such as BatteryBoost -- as its name suggests, this is supposed to give gamers longer battery life when unplugged from the wall.
The GeForce GTX 960M and 950M also include support for ShadowPlay (record gaming moments and share them on YouTube or stream live to Twitch), Optimus (optimizes notebooks for best graphics performance or best battery life, depending on the application), and of course DirectX 12.
Nvidia's newest GPUs are shipping today in a number of upgraded systems from hardware partners such as Asus, Alienware, Razer, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Clevo, Gigabyte, and others.
Update

Nvidia added product pages for both GPUs right as this article was going live. The specs for the GeForce GTX 960M include 640 CUDA cores, 1,096MHz base clock, uknown boost clockspeed, and GDDR5 memory clocked at 2,500MHz on a 128-bit bus (80GB/s bandwidth).
The GeForce GTX 950M is spec'd similarly, but with a 914MHz base clockspeed, 1,000MHz (DDR3) or 2,500MHz (GDDR5) memory clockspeed, and 32GB/s or 80GB/s of memory bandwidth.
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