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Release date: Q3 2015.

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Average Bench: 33.2% (84th of 599)

Based on 50,232 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1402 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

The GTX 950 is Nvidia's latest Maxwell card which is based on a GTX 960 but with 25% fewer CUDA cores and 25% fewer texture units. Comparing the GTX 960 and 950 shows that, as expected, effective speed has been reduced by 25%. The GTX 950 is positioned above GTX 750 Ti which is Nvidia's energy efficient mass market GPU. Comparing the 750 Ti and 950 shows that 950 is nearly 50% faster but it's also priced 50% higher so the 950 doesn't offer improved value for money. Gaming performance for the GTX 950 at resolutions up to 1080p on high/ultra settings will be satisfactory most of the time. That said, the GTX 950 is priced on the high side ($160). At present the GTX 960 ($171) offers 25% better performance for just 7% more money. See a current list of the best value graphics cards here. [Aug '15 GPUPro]

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Poor: 28%Average: 33.2% Great: 37%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 950 averaged 66.8% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 103fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 94.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 950 is just 8.54%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 950 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 86fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 71.8fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 50,232 samples)
Rank 8433.2%
Min Avg Max
85.5 Lighting 103 119
75.4 Reflection 86 95
78.7 Parallax 96.5 111
31.1% 95.2 fps
Min Avg Max
69.7 MRender 76.2 82.3
82.5 Gravity 94.3 105
64.1 Splatting 71.8 80.4
34.6% 80.8 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
EVGA(3842 2957)
CLim: 1557 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 397.64
36.4% Below average
Lighting 117
Reflection 91.5
Parallax 105
35% 104 fps
MRender 79
Gravity 104
Splatting 79.7
38% 87.7 fps
EVGA(3842 2959) 2GB
CLim: 1557 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 417.71
35.8% Below average
Lighting 111
Reflection 93.4
Parallax 104
34% 103 fps
MRender 80.9
Gravity 101
Splatting 80.1
37% 87.4 fps
Zotac(19DA 1376)
CLim: 1468 MHz, MLim: 1701 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13
35.6% Below average
Lighting 116
Reflection 90.7
Parallax 101
34% 103 fps
MRender 79.8
Gravity 100
Splatting 76.4
37% 85.4 fps
Gigabyte(1458 36C3) 2GB
CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.35
32.9% Below average
Lighting 95.9
Reflection 84.5
Parallax 107
31% 95.8 fps
MRender 74.5
Gravity 93.2
Splatting 73.2
34% 80.3 fps
50,232 MORE »

 Game FPS Estimates

Average fps @ 1080p with maximum detail settings for 11 popular games:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: 125 fps Grand Theft Auto V: 37 fps Fortnite: 51 fps League of Legends: 122 fps Overwatch: 65 fps Battlefield 1: 43 fps The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: 32 fps DOTA 2: 96 fps World of Warcraft: 47 fps World of Tanks: 64 fps Battlefield 4: 51 fps

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 13,884,064 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 50,232 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (Approx. $165 @ launch in Aug '15)
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Asus(1043 8554) 13% 34% ± 2%
Asus GTX 950 2GB STRIX GAMING
STRIX-GTX950-DC2OC-2GD5-GAMING
OutletPCUS $19313 months
AmazonUS $99411 mins
EbayUS $1,27325 mins
MSI(1462 3208) 9% 34% ± 1%
MSI GTX 950 2GB GAMING
GTX 950 GAMING 2G
Gigabyte(1458 36C3) 8% 33% ± 2%
MSI(1462 8C92) 8% 32% ± 2%
MSI GTX 950 2GB OC
GTX 950 2GD5 OC
Gigabyte(1458 36C5) 8% 34% ± 1%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB Windforce
GV-N950WF2OC-2GD
AmazonUS $2804 months
Asus(1043 86DC) 5% 31% ± 4%
EVGA(3842 2951) 5% 34% ± 2%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SC
02G-P4-2951-KR
Zotac(19DA 1376) 4% 33% ± 2%
Zotac GTX 950 2GB
ZT-90601-10L
AmazonUS $26110 months
Zotac GTX 950 2GB OC
ZT-90602-10M
AmazonUS $2797 months
Zotac GTX 950 2GB AMP!
ZT-90603-10M
AmazonUS $17622 months
EVGA(3842 2956) 4% 36% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 2959) 3% 34% ± 4%
EVGA(3842 2958) 3% 37% ± 4%
EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB ACX 2.0
02G-P4-2958-KR
AmazonUS $1706 months
OutletPCUS $17823 months
PNY(196E 139F) 2% 32% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 2957) 2% 34% ± 5%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SSC ACX
02G-P4-2957-KR
OutletPCUS $2488 months
AmazonUS $3304 months
Asus(1043 8569) 2% 33% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8553) 2% 32% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 1402) 2% 31% ± 3%
Zotac(19DA 2376) 2% 33% ± 8%
Asus(1043 8586) 1% 30% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 1139) 1% 30% ± 7%
Gigabyte(1458 36C7) 1% 35% ± 5%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB XTREME
GV-N950XTREME-2GD
AmazonUS $17718 months
MSI(1462 320A) 1% 33% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B 3376) 1% 32% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 36D9) 1% 30% ± 4%
Asus(1043 8581) 1% 31% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8557) 1% 31% ± 3%
Asus(1043 8555) 1% 31% ± 2%
Asus(1043 858D) 1% 30% ± 1%
PNY(196E 13A1) 1% 33% ± 6%
Asus(1043 8558) 1% 30% ± 6%
Device(7377 0000) 1% 33% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 11A9) 1% 30% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 1402) 1% 34% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 1953) 1% 33% ± 1%
HP(103C 82DF) 1% 30% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1956) 1% 33% ± 1%
Dell(1028 1139) 0% 29% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8573) 0% 34% ± 0%
PNY(196E 1139) 0% 32% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1950) 0% 34% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36D5) 0% 34% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36D4) 0% 33% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 0956) 0% 31% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36DF) 0% 33% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 0954) 0% 31% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 0958) 0% 31% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 5379) 0% 35% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 370C) 0% 38% ± 0%
Device(1B4C 1139) 0% 34% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8585) 0% 31% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 0% 33% ± 0%
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Desktop 47%
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Workstation 30%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0

CPU
FX-6300AMD  $50Bench 46%, 126,464 samples4,054x
FX-8350AMD  $71Bench 55%, 169,736 samples1,936x
FX-8320AMD  $80Bench 50%, 64,317 samples1,357x
GPU
GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 33%, 50,232 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $63Bench 105%, 350,190 samples334x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $65Bench 54%, 155,795 samples320x
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk  $28Bench 55%, 35,514 samples235x
RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 40%, 159,794 samples3,211x
2x8GBUnknownBench 52%, 58,756 samples2,497x
1x8GBUnknownBench 31%, 51,093 samples2,166x
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 Comments

GPUPro
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928

Official site www.geforce.co.uk/...

Added 3 years ago.
USA-User
Avatar level
4,760

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

19 days ago.

it runs jurrasic world fallen kingdom

GBR-User
Avatar level
3,052

Good

1 month ago.

works really well, can't run a few high requirements for games and cant run Oculus rift is the only downsides

CAN-User
Avatar level
2,608

Excellent

6 days ago.

i saw the comparison and gtx 950 is wayyyyy better

POL-User
Avatar level
2,536

Good

1 month ago.

lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

FRA-User
Avatar level
2,533

Poor

1 day ago.

A bit too aged, but otherwise, i suppose it's fine

ROU-User
Avatar level
2,241

Poor

20 days ago.

its a verry good video card im enjoying all the game with 60 fps no problems.

ESP-User
Avatar level
2,197

Excellent

26 days ago.

Maibe it is not the best graphic card but if you bougth it at a good price (30$) it is a good election. (Sorry because my english, i am a spanish person)

MEX-User
Avatar level
2,044

Good

8 months ago.

its been years since I bought it and maybe more since it came out and I still can run almost any game and most of them with very good graphics in 2018

CZE-User
Avatar level
1,918

Good

19 days ago.

It Works

NLD-User
Avatar level
1,878

Excellent

1 month ago.

its an okay GPU because you can run most games on low with decent fps but the newer games are are very bad (bf5, COD bo4, etc)

GRC-User
Avatar level
1,773

Excellent

4 months ago.

Great Card for the time, and its not even that bad today in 2018 its somewhere inbetween the GT 1030 and GTX 1050, but considering you can pick it up sometimes with a price of lower of the GT 1030, i would say its a really good bargain

THA-User
Avatar level
1,690

Poor

10 days ago.

ใช้ได้เลยคับ

BGR-User
Avatar level
1,608

Excellent

1 month ago.

it sucks not only because is ddr5 and thats new so is not fixed yet and suck

COL-User
Avatar level
1,602

Good

7 months ago.

excellent gpu with really good price/performance ratio

PAK-User
Avatar level
1,438

Good

12 days ago.

LOve Iit

HRV-User
Avatar level
1,426

Excellent

6 months ago.

great card serving me good for years

FIN-User
Avatar level
1,408

Average

1 month ago.

Getting a little outdated, doesnt run games smoothly anymore

GPUPro
Avatar level
928

Above average

3 years ago.

CRI-User
Avatar level
714

Good

12 months ago.

Because i have it and don't have the money to upgrade...

GamingEliot
Avatar level
286

Average

9 months ago.

Pretty good before, not very good value today.

PaulBags
Avatar level
8

Good

2 years ago.

Fine for 1080p@60FPS gaming at mid to low graphic detail. I don't expect this to be too useful for gaming in a couple of years, but with it's low power requirements it'll serve a desktop centred system for a at least a few years longer.

Lmc919
Avatar level
6

Very good

23 months ago.

Very good GPU

Rayz86
Avatar level
2

Good

3 months ago.

This asus gtx 950 si 2gb 2nd hand unit has sold massively in my country only rm330(79 dollar) great value for its speed. hahahaha

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