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GTX 950

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Release date: Q3 2015.

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Average Bench: 32.9% (96th of 611)

Based on 55,194 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: 32.9% Great: 37%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 950 averaged 67.0% 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) 94.1fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 950 is just 8.35%. 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) 85.6fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 71.3fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 55,194 samples)
Rank 9632.9%
Min Avg Max
85.7 Lighting 103 118
74.3 Reflection 85.6 94.3
79.2 Parallax 95.8 110
31% 94.7 fps
Min Avg Max
66.7 MRender 75.5 80.8
82.9 Gravity 94.1 105
60.2 Splatting 71.3 80
34.4% 80.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
EVGA(3842 2956) 2GB
CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 419.35
35.9% Below average
Lighting 115
Reflection 92.7
Parallax 103
34% 104 fps
MRender 79.3
Gravity 102
Splatting 78.7
37% 86.8 fps
Asus(1043 8554)
CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 419.17
34.9% Below average
Lighting 109
Reflection 92.1
Parallax 113
34% 105 fps
MRender 78.4
Gravity 95.4
Splatting 75
36% 82.9 fps
Gigabyte(1458 36C3) 2GB
CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13
32.6% Below average
Lighting 105
Reflection 82.1
Parallax 92.3
31% 93 fps
MRender 78.2
Gravity 90.7
Splatting 67.9
34% 78.9 fps
Gainward(10B0 1402) 2GB
CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 419.35
32.5% Below average
Lighting 100
Reflection 84.4
Parallax 93.4
30% 92.7 fps
MRender 76.3
Gravity 91.9
Splatting 70.6
34% 79.6 fps
55,194 MORE »

 Game FPS Estimates

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

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: 124 fps Fortnite: 52 fps Grand Theft Auto V: 38 fps League of Legends: 122 fps Overwatch: 65 fps Battlefield 1: 43 fps The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: 32 fps DOTA 2: 94 fps World of Warcraft: 46 fps World of Tanks: 66 fps Battlefield 4: 51 fps

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 15,541,099 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 55,194 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (Approx. $165 @ launch in Aug '15)
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Asus(1043 8554) 11% 34% ± 1%
Asus GTX 950 2GB STRIX GAMING
STRIX-GTX950-DC2OC-2GD5-GAMING
OutletPCUS $19315 months
AmazonUS $8505 mins
EbayUS $1,00421 mins
MSI(1462 3208) 10% 33% ± 3%
MSI GTX 950 2GB GAMING
GTX 950 GAMING 2G
Gigabyte(1458 36C3) 8% 32% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 36C5) 7% 33% ± 3%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB Windforce
GV-N950WF2OC-2GD
AmazonUS $2806 months
EVGA(3842 2951) 6% 35% ± 1%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SC
02G-P4-2951-KR
MSI(1462 8C92) 6% 32% ± 3%
MSI GTX 950 2GB OC
GTX 950 2GD5 OC
EVGA(3842 2957) 5% 36% ± 2%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SSC ACX
02G-P4-2957-KR
OutletPCUS $24810 months
AmazonUS $3306 months
Zotac(19DA 1376) 5% 32% ± 4%
Zotac GTX 950 2GB
ZT-90601-10L
AmazonUS $26112 months
Zotac GTX 950 2GB OC
ZT-90602-10M
AmazonUS $2799 months
Zotac GTX 950 2GB AMP!
ZT-90603-10M
AmazonUS $1762 years
EVGA(3842 2956) 5% 34% ± 5%
Asus(1043 86DC) 4% 31% ± 6%
Asus(1043 8569) 3% 33% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 2958) 3% 35% ± 3%
EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB ACX 2.0
02G-P4-2958-KR
AmazonUS $1708 months
OutletPCUS $1782 years
Asus(1043 8555) 2% 28% ± 8%
Nvidia(10DE 1139) 2% 34% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36C7) 2% 36% ± 2%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB XTREME
GV-N950XTREME-2GD
AmazonUS $17720 months
EVGA(3842 2959) 2% 35% ± 2%
MSI(1462 320A) 1% 33% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 1402) 1% 33% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36D9) 1% 31% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8581) 1% 31% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8557) 1% 31% ± 2%
PNY(196E 139F) 1% 33% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8586) 1% 30% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8553) 1% 32% ± 3%
Gainward(10B0 1402) 1% 33% ± 3%
Sapphire(174B 3376) 1% 32% ± 1%
Dell(1028 1139) 1% 32% ± 1%
Zotac(19DA 2376) 1% 31% ± 10%
Zotac(19DA 3378) 1% 30% ± 4%
EVGA(3842 1958) 1% 33% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8558) 0% 32% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8585) 0% 31% ± 0%
HP(103C 82DF) 0% 30% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1954) 0% 31% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1950) 0% 33% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 1953) 0% 33% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 36D5) 0% 33% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36DF) 0% 32% ± 3%
Asus(1043 858D) 0% 30% ± 1%
PNY(196E 13A1) 0% 32% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8573) 0% 36% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 11A9) 0% 32% ± 1%
PNY(196E 1139) 0% 30% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 1956) 0% 33% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36D4) 0% 33% ± 0%
Asus(1043 85B2) 0% 31% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 370C) 0% 35% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000) 0% 32% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1955) 0% 32% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1952) 0% 31% ± 0%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0

CPU
FX-6300AMD  $60Bench 46%, 131,108 samples4,431x
FX-8350AMD  $65Bench 55%, 190,698 samples2,188x
FX-8320AMD  $88Bench 50%, 66,730 samples1,479x
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GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 33%, 55,194 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $49Bench 105%, 411,158 samples365x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $59Bench 53%, 163,769 samples339x
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk  $28Bench 57%, 39,869 samples244x
RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 40%, 187,340 samples3,498x
2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 68,773 samples2,734x
1x8GBUnknownBench 32%, 56,564 samples2,356x
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 Comments

GPUPro
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943

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

Added 3 years ago.
USA-User
Avatar level
4,994

Good (edit your comment) Add link

5 days ago.

it runs jurrasic world fallen kingdom

DEU-User
Avatar level
3,271

Average

3 days ago.

had it for 3 years now in a 600 bugs prebuild pc and it held up pretty well, ran csgo, lol and minecraft perfect.

GBR-User
Avatar level
3,208

Good

30 days 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
2,718

Good

1 month ago.

i saw the comparison and gtx 950 is wayyyyy better

FRA-User
Avatar level
2,657

Poor

2 months ago.

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

POL-User
Avatar level
2,626

Good

3 months ago.

lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

ROU-User
Avatar level
2,345

Poor

4 days ago.

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

ESP-User
Avatar level
2,273

Average

21 days ago.

I changed it for 1070 Ti but it did his work very well

MEX-User
Avatar level
2,156

Excellent

7 days 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

NLD-User
Avatar level
1,954

Good

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
1,835

Excellent

6 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
1,756

Good

3 days ago.

ใช้ได้เลยคับ

BGR-User
Avatar level
1,666

Good

1 month ago.

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

COL-User
Avatar level
1,660

Good

29 days ago.

excellent gpu with really good price/performance ratio

FIN-User
Avatar level
1,476

Poor

25 days ago.

Getting a little outdated, doesnt run games smoothly anymore

HRV-User
Avatar level
1,458

Excellent

8 months ago.

great card serving me good for years

GPUPro
Avatar level
943

Above average

3 years ago.

CRI-User
Avatar level
742

Good

1 month ago.

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

GamingEliot
Avatar level
286

Average

11 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

2 years ago.

Very good GPU

Rayz86
Avatar level
2

Good

5 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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