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GTX 950

Average Bench: 26.4% (120th of 643)

Based on 85,287 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]

Poor: 24%Average: 26.4% Great: 29%

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Very poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 950 averaged 73.5% 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 4.55%. 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) 86.3fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 96.6fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 85,287 samples)
Rank 12026.4%
Min Avg Max
89 Lighting 103 117
77.9 Reflection 86.3 93.6
86.8 Parallax 96.6 109
27.2% 95.4 fps
Min Avg Max
72.3 MRender 76.3 81
85 Gravity 94.3 104
62.6 Splatting 70.2 79.8
26.5% 80.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
EVGA(3842 2958)
CLim: 1569 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 456.38
28.8% Poor
Lighting 118
Reflection 93.3
Parallax 104
31% 105 fps
MRender 76.7
Gravity 104
Splatting 79.7
29% 86.9 fps
MSI(1462 3208)
CLim: 1468 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 451.67
27.3% Poor
Lighting 110
Reflection 87.7
Parallax 98.6
29% 98.9 fps
MRender 75.1
Gravity 98.2
Splatting 75.1
27% 82.8 fps
Zotac(19DA 1376)
CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 456.38
26.5% Poor
Lighting 101
Reflection 84.7
Parallax 108
26% 97.7 fps
MRender 78
Gravity 94.1
Splatting 73
27% 81.7 fps
PNY(196E 1139) 2GB
CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 441.66
22.4% Poor
Lighting 87.3
Reflection 73.8
Parallax 82.4
23% 81.2 fps
MRender 67.4
Gravity 79.1
Splatting 62.3
22% 69.6 fps
MSI(1462 320A) 2GB
CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 385.69
16.5% Very poor
Lighting 101
Reflection 82.4
Parallax 92.8
26% 92.1 fps
MRender 17.8
Gravity 65.9
Splatting 40.4
16% 41.4 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 33,245,658 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 85,287 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (Approx. $165 @ launch in Aug '15)
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Asus(1043 8554) 10% 27% ± 1%
Asus GTX 950 2GB STRIX GAMING
STRIX-GTX950-DC2OC-2GD5-GAMING
OutletPCUS $1932 years
AmazonUS $2004 months
MSI(1462 3208) 7% 27% ± 1%
MSI GTX 950 2GB GAMING
GTX 950 GAMING 2G
Gigabyte(1458 36C5) 7% 27% ± 1%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB Windforce
GV-N950WF2OC-2GD
AmazonUS $2802 years
Gigabyte(1458 36C3) 7% 26% ± 1%
MSI(1462 8C92) 6% 26% ± 1%
MSI GTX 950 2GB OC
GTX 950 2GD5 OC
Asus(1043 86DC) 5% 25% ± 1%
Zotac(19DA 1376) 4% 27% ± 1%
Zotac GTX 950 2GB
ZT-90601-10L
AmazonUS $2612 years
Zotac GTX 950 2GB OC
ZT-90602-10M
AmazonUS $2792 years
Zotac GTX 950 2GB AMP!
ZT-90603-10M
AmazonUS $1763 years
EVGA(3842 2951) 4% 28% ± 1%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SC
02G-P4-2951-KR
Asus(1043 8569) 4% 26% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 2956) 3% 28% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 1402) 2% 25% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8573) 2% 28% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 2957) 2% 28% ± 1%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SSC ACX
02G-P4-2957-KR
OutletPCUS $2482 years
AmazonUS $3305 months
EVGA(3842 2958) 2% 28% ± 0%
EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB ACX 2.0
02G-P4-2958-KR
AmazonUS $1702 years
OutletPCUS $1783 years
Asus(1043 8581) 2% 24% ± 0%
PNY(196E 139F) 2% 26% ± 1%
MSI(1462 320A) 2% 26% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8586) 2% 24% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 1139) 2% 27% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 2959) 2% 28% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36C7) 1% 27% ± 2%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB XTREME
GV-N950XTREME-2GD
AmazonUS $1773 years
Zotac(19DA 2376) 1% 29% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 3378) 1% 26% ± 0%
Dell(1028 1139) 1% 25% ± 1%
HP(103C 82DF) 1% 24% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 11A9) 1% 26% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B 3376) 1% 25% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8557) 1% 26% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8555) 1% 25% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8553) 1% 26% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1953) 1% 26% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36D9) 1% 24% ± 0%
PNY(196E 13A0) 1% 29% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1955) 1% 26% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36D5) 0% 26% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36DF) 0% 25% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 0958) 0% 25% ± 0%
Asus(1043 858D) 0% 25% ± 2%
PNY(196E 13A1) 0% 26% ± 0%
PNY(196E 1139) 0% 25% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1956) 0% 26% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 1402) 0% 25% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1958) 0% 26% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36D4) 0% 25% ± 1%
Sanyo(144D 0997) 0% 26% ± 0%
Asus(1043 85B2) 0% 24% ± 1%
Device(0000 0000) 0% 26% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000) 0% 25% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1950) 0% 26% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 0952) 0% 25% ± 0%
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Gaming 21%
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Desktop 75%
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Workstation 17%
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System: Asus G11CD

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel  $156Bench 69%, 118,416 samples1,122x
Core i7-6700Intel  $279Bench 76%, 188,819 samples501x
Core i7-6700KIntel  $276Bench 84%, 437,946 samples39x
GPU
GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 26%, 85,287 samples1x
SSD
SD8SB8U512G1002 512GBSandiskBench 80%, 1,423 samples148x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $124Bench 114%, 258,227 samples58x
SD8SBAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 58%, 2,178 samples58x
RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 13,415 samples422x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 72%, 13,174 samples242x
ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 717 samples94x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 58% - Above average Total price: $326

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,506

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

Added 5 years ago.
USA-User
Avatar level
6,914

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

6 days ago.

At the time of purchase (2016) it was a fairly decent upgrade and barely broke the $100 mark after rebate. Still rocking it in an 8yr old XPS 8500 w/i5-3350p in late 2020

CAN-User
Avatar level
3,650

Excellent

4 months ago.

i saw the comparison and gtx 950 is wayyyyy better

FRA-User
Avatar level
3,539

Poor

3 months ago.

it is my first graphic card and it is a good for a starter on the gaming

IDN-User
Avatar level
3,441

Excellent

18 days ago.

I think 960 is better but in my country 960 is like 22$ more expensive than 950

POL-User
Avatar level
3,402

Excellent

5 months ago.

lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

IND-User
Avatar level
3,278

Terrible

3 months ago.

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ESP-User
Avatar level
2,977

Average

7 months ago.

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

MEX-User
Avatar level
2,974

Good

14 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

NLD-User
Avatar level
2,552

Excellent

6 months 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
2,369

Poor

1 month 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
2,330

Excellent

2 months ago.

ใช้ได้เลยคับ

COL-User
Avatar level
2,302

Good

5 months ago.

excellent gpu with really good price/performance ratio

BGR-User
Avatar level
2,154

Excellent

5 months ago.

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

FIN-User
Avatar level
1,934

Good

5 months ago.

Getting a little outdated, doesnt run games smoothly anymore

HRV-User
Avatar level
1,816

Excellent

7 months ago.

great card serving me good for years

GPUPro
Avatar level
1,506

Above average

5 years ago.

CRI-User
Avatar level
924

Good

19 months ago.

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

GamingEliot
Avatar level
500

Average

2 years ago.

Pretty good before, not very good value today.

Viper207
Avatar level
362

Good

2 months ago.

can run games at minimum settings at 2020 at 2015 is nice but killed by 1050 ti vram 2gb is poor

RavenBailiff
Avatar level
304

Poor

15 months ago.

Good value at the time.

PaulBags
Avatar level
8

Good

3 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

3 years ago.

Very good GPU

Rayz86
Avatar level
2

Good

23 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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