Nvidia Releases New GeForce GTX 950 With E-Sports Gamers In Mind

Posted by at 3:54 am on August 21, 2015

GeForce GTX 950There’s currently some heated completion going on among graphics card makers and with the release of Nvidia’s GTX 950, the company is upping its game, and MOBA players and Twitch broadcasters should pay attention.

Launching its newest graphics card, Nvidia is releasing even more specific drivers designed to improve performance for popular multiplayer online battle arenas such as League of Legends, Dota 2 and Heroes of the Storm. These are meant to lower the latency between a mouse click and what players see on the screen. In a recent demo, Thomas Petersen, Nvidia’s distinguished engineer. showed off the benefits. The GTX 950 performed admirably compared to the older GTX 650. The visuals were sharper and the framerate was more consistent. During hectic battles, the game never dipped below 50 frames per second on the 950, giving players a smoother experience.

That’s to be expected, but what’s more impressive is the optimization that makes titles such as Dota 2 more responsive. He said the improvements the team made shrinks the render time and whereas the GTX 650 saw a 80 milliseconds response time between click and action on the screen, the GTX 950 slashes that almost in half to 45 milliseconds. That split-second often is the difference between getting that last hit on a mob and getting experience and losing that opportunity. Right now, that low-latency optimization is only available for the GTX 950, but Nvidia intends to release it for its other cards.

The second improvement Petersen revealed is a feature called Share. It will replace Shadowplay, a GeForce Experience program that let users record gameplay and stream but wasn’t used that often, according to the engineer. The Share is a essentially an upgrade to that and offers four ways to display your gameplay videos to the world — instant replay, record, broadcast and stream.

The Instant Replay, Record and Broadcast are all self-explanatory. Instant Replay lets players record up to 30 minutes to an hour of gameplay. From there, players can edit it, pare it down and upload that footage quickly to YouTube. Record does a similar thing, but it saves the data locally. Petersen said both options are better than the built-in DVR of Windows 10 because it has a low overhead when it comes to impact on processing power and it can capture 4K video at 60 frames per second.

Broadcast lets players stream on Twitch. There isn’t much customization to the layout. The program is fairly barebones, but it is serviceable.

The more interesting element of Share is the Stream option, which lets players make a peer-to-peer connection with a friend through a Chrome browser. All players have to do is send a buddy an email and the link inside it will open up a window via a Chrome extension. It lets a friend see what you’re playing and they can offer tips on a particularly tricky section or commentary on gameplay.

Things move to the next level though because in addition to commenting over the peer-to-peer video, players can hand over control to the friend watching and she can actually manipulate the game from her computer or laptop. There’s even an option to do co-op if the game supports it so that you and a buddy can be playing together via the stream.

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