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GTX 950

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Release date: Q3 2015.

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Average Bench: 32.9% (98th of 613)

Based on 61,607 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: 29%Average: 32.9% Great: 36%

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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) 102fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 93.9fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 950 is just 7.92%. 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) 85.4fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 71.7fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 61,607 samples)
Rank 9832.9%
Min Avg Max
84.4 Lighting 102 118
73.6 Reflection 85.4 94.7
78.6 Parallax 95.9 110
30.9% 94.5 fps
Min Avg Max
68.5 MRender 75.5 81.2
82.9 Gravity 93.9 104
62.1 Splatting 71.7 80.1
34.4% 80.4 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
PNY(196E 139F) 2GB
CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 430.64
33.2% Below average
Lighting 102
Reflection 87.7
Parallax 96.7
31% 95.5 fps
MRender 76.9
Gravity 93.6
Splatting 74
35% 81.5 fps
MSI(1462 8C92)
CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 430.39
32.7% Below average
Lighting 99
Reflection 84.3
Parallax 96.1
30% 93.1 fps
MRender 78.4
Gravity 90.8
Splatting 73.9
35% 81 fps
MSI(1462 8C92)
CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 430.64
32% Below average
Lighting 95.7
Reflection 82.4
Parallax 92.8
29% 90.3 fps
MRender 78.7
Gravity 90.8
Splatting 69.2
34% 79.6 fps
PNY(196E 13A1) 2GB
CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 430.64
31.3% Below average
Lighting 99.9
Reflection 73.6
Parallax 92.1
30% 88.5 fps
MRender 74.9
Gravity 86.3
Splatting 64.6
32% 75.3 fps
61,607 MORE »

 Game FPS Estimates

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

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: 123 fps Fortnite: 53 fps Grand Theft Auto V: 38 fps League of Legends: 122 fps Overwatch: 69 fps Battlefield 1: 43 fps The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: 33 fps DOTA 2: 81 fps World of Warcraft: 45 fps World of Tanks: 66 fps Minecraft: 124 fps

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 17,046,372 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 61,607 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (Approx. $165 @ launch in Aug '15)
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Asus(1043 8554) 14% 34% ± 2%
Asus GTX 950 2GB STRIX GAMING
STRIX-GTX950-DC2OC-2GD5-GAMING
OutletPCUS $19318 months
AmazonUS $85018 mins
EbayUS $1,00425 mins
MSI(1462 3208) 9% 33% ± 2%
MSI GTX 950 2GB GAMING
GTX 950 GAMING 2G
Gigabyte(1458 36C5) 8% 33% ± 2%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB Windforce
GV-N950WF2OC-2GD
AmazonUS $2809 months
MSI(1462 8C92) 7% 32% ± 4%
MSI GTX 950 2GB OC
GTX 950 2GD5 OC
Gigabyte(1458 36C3) 7% 32% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 2951) 7% 33% ± 5%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SC
02G-P4-2951-KR
EVGA(3842 2956) 4% 35% ± 1%
Zotac(19DA 1376) 3% 33% ± 3%
Zotac GTX 950 2GB
ZT-90601-10L
AmazonUS $26114 months
Zotac GTX 950 2GB OC
ZT-90602-10M
AmazonUS $27911 months
Zotac GTX 950 2GB AMP!
ZT-90603-10M
AmazonUS $1762 years
EVGA(3842 2958) 3% 37% ± 3%
EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB ACX 2.0
02G-P4-2958-KR
AmazonUS $17010 months
OutletPCUS $1782 years
EVGA(3842 2959) 3% 36% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8569) 3% 32% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 2957) 3% 34% ± 3%
EVGA GTX 950 2GB SSC ACX
02G-P4-2957-KR
OutletPCUS $24812 months
AmazonUS $33018 mins
Asus(1043 86DC) 3% 30% ± 5%
Asus(1043 8553) 2% 31% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 1402) 2% 32% ± 2%
PNY(196E 139F) 2% 32% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B 3376) 1% 29% ± 7%
Asus(1043 8586) 1% 30% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 1402) 1% 33% ± 1%
MSI(1462 320A) 1% 33% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36D9) 1% 31% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36C7) 1% 35% ± 2%
Gigabyte GTX 950 2GB XTREME
GV-N950XTREME-2GD
AmazonUS $17723 months
Zotac(19DA 2376) 1% 36% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 36DF) 1% 32% ± 3%
Asus(1043 8555) 1% 32% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 1139) 1% 33% ± 2%
Dell(1028 1139) 1% 32% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8557) 1% 33% ± 1%
Asus(1043 858D) 1% 31% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8581) 1% 31% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8585) 1% 30% ± 1%
PNY(196E 13A1) 1% 29% ± 6%
Zotac(19DA 3378) 1% 29% ± 4%
EVGA(3842 0956) 0% 31% ± 1%
Zotac(19DA 5379) 0% 35% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 11A9) 0% 35% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1954) 0% 31% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1950) 0% 32% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1952) 0% 32% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 1953) 0% 23% ± 15%
Asus(1043 8558) 0% 33% ± 0%
Device(0000 0000) 0% 35% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8573) 0% 35% ± 1%
PNY(196E 1139) 0% 33% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 1955) 0% 33% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1958) 0% 32% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36D5) 0% 34% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 36D4) 0% 30% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 0958) 0% 31% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1409) 0% 32% ± 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  $60Bench 46%, 146,919 samples4,751x
FX-8350AMD  $69Bench 55%, 196,442 samples2,383x
FX-8320AMD  $95Bench 50%, 70,993 samples1,585x
GPU
GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 33%, 61,607 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $70Bench 104%, 410,120 samples387x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $45Bench 53%, 176,655 samples364x
SSD Plus 120GBSanDisk  $28Bench 58%, 42,012 samples263x
RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 40%, 208,173 samples3,736x
2x8GBUnknownBench 54%, 69,069 samples2,948x
1x8GBUnknownBench 31%, 63,000 samples2,510x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 78% - Very good Total price: $300

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 Comments

GPUPro
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948

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

Added 3 years ago.
USA-User
Avatar level
5,200

Good (edit your comment) Add link

10 days ago.

it runs jurrasic world fallen kingdom

DEU-User
Avatar level
3,395

Poor

2 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
3,338

Terrible

5 days ago.

love it!

TUR-User
Avatar level
3,174

Terrible

13 hrs ago.

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CAN-User
Avatar level
2,844

Good

3 months ago.

i saw the comparison and gtx 950 is wayyyyy better

FRA-User
Avatar level
2,759

Poor

4 months ago.

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

BRA-User
Avatar level
2,723

Excellent

2 days ago.

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POL-User
Avatar level
2,710

Excellent

1 month ago.

lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

IDN-User
Avatar level
2,517

Good

1 month ago.

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

ROU-User
Avatar level
2,455

Excellent

2 days ago.

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

ESP-User
Avatar level
2,357

Poor

6 days ago.

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

MEX-User
Avatar level
2,236

Good

17 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
2,012

Good

3 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
1,899

Excellent

8 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
1,802

Poor

1 month ago.

ใช้ได้เลยคับ

COL-User
Avatar level
1,720

Good

2 months ago.

excellent gpu with really good price/performance ratio

BGR-User
Avatar level
1,708

Good

4 months ago.

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

CHL-User
Avatar level
1,526

Excellent

5 days ago.

realy good men

FIN-User
Avatar level
1,514

Poor

3 months ago.

Getting a little outdated, doesnt run games smoothly anymore

HRV-User
Avatar level
1,488

Excellent

10 months ago.

great card serving me good for years

GPUPro
Avatar level
948

Above average

3 years ago.

MAR-User
Avatar level
876

Excellent

28 days ago.

oI love it

CRI-User
Avatar level
762

Good

3 months ago.

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

GamingEliot
Avatar level
290

Average

13 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

7 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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