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NVIDIA’s GTX 970M and 980M Maxwell mobile GPUs have been available for a few weeks now and a number of high-end gaming notebooks with these two cards are available in the market. However, mid-range gaming notebooks have been stuck on the previous 800M series GPUs. This is soon expected to change as notebooks with NVIDIA GTX 960M, GTX 950M, and GT 940M are expected to be launched soon.

Based on preliminary rumored specifications, the NVIDIA GTX 960M and the GTX 950M cards will include a total of 640 CUDA cores and include 2GB of VRAM with a 128-bit memory interface. These specifications are more or less similar to their predecessors – GTX 860M and the GTX 850M. So the performance gains will only come from the newer Maxwell architecture that the newer cards are based on.

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 940M will include 384 CUDA cores with a 64-bit memory interface and up to 4GB of total VRAM. Just like the GTX960M and GTX950M, the GT 940M also features similar specifications to its predecessor.

Although we do not have a confirmed release date yet, a number of upcoming notebooks with these new Maxwell GPUs have been spotted already by Videocardz. The Asus ROG G551JW for instance will be using the NVIDIA GTX 960M card with 2GB of GDDR5 memory while the Acer Aspire V Nitro VN7-571G and the Lenovo ThinkPad T550 20CK009XS will be using the NVIDIA GT 940M GPU.

Source: Videocardz