Black Friday Deal: Moonlight-Capable Nvidia GTX 950 On Sale for $139

Its not directly iOS related, but this deal might be of interest to some of you: Amazon is selling the new GeForce GTX 950 for $139 right now, down from its usual $169 price. Why I’m mentioning this: because the GTX 950 is a cutting-edge Nvidia GPU, you can use it to stream games from your PC to your iPhone or iPad using Moonlight.

Using Moonlight, you can stick the GTX 950 in your PC and stream games directly to your iPhone or iPad. Streaming is 60FPS at any resolution, and has almost no lag or perceivable video compression. It is comparable to AirPlay, but beams games from your PC to your iOS hardware, instead of from iOS to your TV.

Performance-wise, Nvidia is pitching the GTX 950 as being comparable to the GPU performance of the Xbox One and PS4. For any game that doesn’t require massive amounts of memory, the 950 should be able to hold its own playing next-gen games.

You can spend a lot MORE than the GTX 950’s $139 price tag to get even more powerful GPUs that run PC games at even higher settings (the $195 GTX 960 4GB is particularly tempting). I might do that next year, but for now, the 950 is the perfect sweet spot in price-to-performance.