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hi and welcome back to hardware unboxed I'm your host Matt and today we've got the first look at the geforce gtx 950 graphics card in videos new gtx 950 is the new $150 GPU on the block codenamed g 206 it's based on the same axle design as the gtx 960 this means the die size and the transistor count match that of the gtx 960 what has been changed as the core configuration which says 25% of the cuda cores and texture units disabled in total there are 768 single precision cuda cores 48 texture units and 32 are aps unfortunately this means the gtx 950 shares the same achilles heel a dismal 128 bit memory bus trumps buy the radeon r7 370 is 256 bit memory bus gtx 950 is nearest competitor this means that the gtx 950 has a little over 40% less memory bandwidth by comparison where the gtx 960 featured a 1127 megahertz core base clock the gtx 950 you'll run 9% slower at a thousand and 24 megahertz with a boost clock speed of 1188 megahertz the gddr5 memory is also 6 percent slower at 1650 megahertz the thermal design power rating is just 90 watts for the gtx 950 and if video suggests that the game was lonely near the 350 watt power supply having said that let's go and see what the gtx 950 produces in the real world we're gonna be benchmarking in 1080p let's see how it performs the gtx 950 gets off to a great start in Assassin's Creed unity has managed to healthy 35 frames per second edging out the r7 370 by a couple of frames and 10 frames behind the gtx 960 in call of duty advanced warfare the 950 perform well again managed 94 frames per second which was 22% more than the r7 370 that said it was also 22% slower than the GTX 960 next opera Crysis 3 results with both the GTX 760 and 960 where to beat the 950 again it eclipses the r7 370 but only by a couple of frames the 950 perform well again in dying light managing 40 frames per second this was just 5 frames per second shy the GTX 960 but an impressive 9 frames faster than the r7 370 in f1 2015 the GTX 950 was able to match the GTX 760 again with 52 frames per second apiece the r7 370 was just 3 frames per second behind and the GTX 960 scored 12 frames more with 64 the results in GTA 5 were very similar to f1 2015 the 950 and 760 were neck-and-neck at 82 frames per second 10% ahead of the r7 370 and 15% behind the GTX 960 in battlefield hardline the results were again similar this time the 760 edged out the 950 by single frame and the r7 370 was just shy of 16% behind the GTX 960 was 20% faster in this test the 950 overclocked well reaching 1284 megahertz without any additional voltage that's a massive 25% overclock the gddr5 memory reached 1778 megahertz which was a decent eight percent overclock and that frequency surpassed the gtx 960 before jumping to the overclocking results I'd like to just mention that when overclocked the zotac gtx 950 never exceeded 74 degrees and at the stop frequencies peaked at 71 degrees testing with middle-earth we found that the overclocked gtx 950 was now able to match the r7 370 with 36 frames per second and even more impressively was just two frames slower than the GTX 960 in f1 2015 the overclocked 950 was just three frames per second slower than the gtx 960 with 61 frames per second this was an impressive 9 frames per second improvement plating at 12 frames per second ahead of the r7 370 and call of duty advanced warfare the overclocked 950 was again able to match the performance of the gtx 960 with a hundred and thirty frames per second this is also again 9 frames per second faster than the 950 and a pretty significant 47% faster than the r7 370 this is where the Maxwell architecture has been the most impressive when looking at power consumption the GTX 950 was often found matching the GTX 760 yet we see a rather large 20% reduction in power consumption the entire system which includes the core i7 4970 k processor and geforce gtx 950 GPU consume just 171 watts in plain daylight this is why a video recommends a power supply with a 350 watt output the 950 results was surprisingly good better than expected on pay for the 950 should be around 25% slower than the 960 and in reality the results were much closer than that we found in our tests that the 950 was an average just 17 percent slower than the 960 which was quite impressive more surprising was the fact that the 950 on average was 45 percent faster than the 750 Ti the 950 only features 20% more CUDA cores for combine that with the 20% greater memory bandwidth and things start to weigh heavily in the 1950s favor when compared to the r7 370 we found that the 950 provide 11% better gaming performance the 950 also overclocked really well without adjusting the voltage and temperatures remain relatively low coming in price at 150 dollars we can no doubt expect to see AMD slash the price of the r7 370 and introduce the faster 370 ex at the same price point this is Ben math aha brown box let me know what you think in the comments hit like hit subscribe and we'll see you next 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