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what's going on guys JC since bring you another graphics card video seems to be an awful lot of these lately but that's okay because you guys like graphics card videos I like graphics card videos and I get a lot of complaints of people saying I do too much high-end hardware reviews I have no idea where they get that impression unless you've been living under a rock and maybe even if you haven't been you may or may not have heard about the GTX 950 which is Nvidia 's new graphics card to replace the GTX 750 and 750 Ti so today we're going to go ahead and talk about that because I get a lot of complaints from people saying I do too much high-end hardware do stuff that we can afford and I'm going to do the best I can to keep this from being a 30 minute video because we all know I tend to talk a lot especially when I do stuff like Tech Talk with Jerry we get really long-winded we tend to get off subject and we don't talk about things are actually relevant and then people are telling us that we should probably go ahead and like there was this one time actually when I was in high school of I was in class and I was giving a presentation the teacher told me to kind of keep it short because she's like I know J that you tend to talk a lot and I did whether you're looking for a pump reservoir custom GPU block or a complete loop in a box alpha cools wide range of products can make your next water cooling adventure and easy one click the link in the description for more details and so anyway to keep a long story short we'll go ahead and talk about this guy right here the GTX 950 now we're looking at the EVGA 950 for the win so it's a little bit customized it's even got a backplate on there you know I know the 980 was boxed long before I started giving them a hard time about there not being back plates on their top to your cards long before the 980ti launched or the Titan X launched it's kind of funny that you know we've we've got EVGA to start including back plates on their on their graphics cards but it's just what's really funny about that is the fact that the 980 still doesn't have a backplate with it because those were like produced and boxed and warehouse long before the J's backplate movement really started to gain momentum but anyway before the win Edition and higher on the 950 has a backplate I do not believe the SC does so same exact backplate you'd pretty much find on a 960 the cooler itself is pretty much identical to a gtx 960 it's just been adapted to the 950 because that's really what the 950 is is a cut-down GTX 960 that was one of the things that the 750 lacked was SLI support so there were some folks out there who unfortunately bought a 750 and said well if I need more power later I'll just get another one in SLI and they didn't realize it doesn't support SLI so that's a nice change to see so the cooler just like the GTX 960 features three copper heat pipes which are long ways they're not curving or going up and down aluminum fins and quite a few of them in terms of power delivery it only requires a single 8 pin PCI Express power and it does have at least the for the win Edition does have two BIOS on here a master and a slave now I'm not sure I understand why they're going with dual BIOS in case you want to kind of tinker with it and hack it or I guess you know you go have to worry about breaking the card like I've done in the past on single BIOS cards but I'm not too sure there's that many people out there who are going to go and try and do custom hacks or voltage mods to a 950 so to me that just it's like hey cool it's got it but I don't know why it has it to be honest I mean I'm not going to hack a gtx 950 there's just no point in that now the benchmarks are going to be an only 1080p and the reason for that is that is all this card is meant for 1080p and lower it does not have a ton of CUDA cores it's a 768 CUDA cores it's got 6.6 Gbps gddr5 memory it has got the base clock on this thing as 1044 megahertz right or 1024 megahertz with a boost clock of 1188 from the factory this one boosts much higher out of the box from EBG a because of the custom design on this in fact this one in my environment went to fourteen hundred and fifty-five megahertz and of course we did overclock that as well but other than that this is not a powerhouse graphics card it's only got 2 gigabytes of vram so keep this thing where it belongs 1080p or under anyway let's go ahead and talk about those benchmarks alright guys let's go ahead and get right down to it so as you can see the pricing of this guy is one hundred and seventy nine dollars for the for the win Edition you can find nine fifty s as low as 159 bucks so compared to everything I've currently put through my test bench suite that I put together it is the cheapest card of the bunch therefore you should expect it to have the least performance of the bunch so don't think that this card is going to go toe-to-toe with like say the 380 or the 970 I mean it's not going to happen alright so for the core clocks I got an extra 100 megahertz above the boost clock of 1455 it boosted the 1455 all on its own and that without touching anything so that's Factory and it stayed there - it didn't throttle up and down as the test went on so I got an extra 100 megahertz - 1555 I also got a plus 200 on the memory and that does actually make a difference in these benchmarks so I want to put that up there as well the other thing to put out there is overclocking on this was done on precision x16 five point three point seven on Nvidia drivers 350 5.82 so those are brand new drivers and I didn't notice anything weird except for one test we'll talk about that now as you can see it is the coolest air cooled card of the bunch 62 Celsius while overclocked under load did a great job as coolers doing very good but the I mean the GPU is extremely efficient it doesn't get hot so as you can see here 28 idle in a 62 max load now as we go forward here with the tests I did run fire strike at normal extreme and ultra I just want to see how it's scaled and as you can see here we had a little bit of a jump from a 69 42 273 49 in normal 34 or 32 69 versus 34:54 in extreme and 1137 to a 12 62 in 4k so you can see the overclock did yield us obviously some results in all of the tests now moving forward these tests are only be done in 1080p because that's where this card belongs 1080p and that's it so don't think that this card is going to go toe-to-toe with anything else on this chart simply because it's it's just not placed to do that the only card it's really intended to go head-to-head with in my opinion is the r9 370 which I'm still waiting on from AMD they said they would send it to me a month ago I haven't gotten it yet once it gets here we will go back and redo these tests and we will do a video directly comparing the 950 to the r9 370 now because I'm only doing one resolution I went ahead and made this standard clock versus overclocked average fps and minimum fps that was a highly requested thing that I do is include minimum fps so that's what we are doing here now you can see without overclocking about 29 fps in Witcher 3 and 25 FPS minimum that's actually a big deal considering it shows that there's not much swing between minimum and average which gives you smoother perceived gameplay even at a lower fps so that is important 32 versus 26 when overclocked GTA v when overclocked you can see we got pretty damn close to that magic 60 FPS number with 49 FPS minimum healthy boost over the you know stock clock of 1455 453 versus 44 so we got a pretty decent jump across the board Metro last light which is a static test here you can see again when overclocked for 51 to 54 now the minimums on on Metro you can kind of ignore that these minimums happen in between some of the scenes where there's a where the where the benchmark actually loads it goes to a black screen and dips for a second so that's why these minimums are so damn low I've even seen these minimums go down into the single digits with high end cards so ignore the minimums here on Metro just like Witcher 3 Crysis 3 kind of gives this card a kick in the butt when at very high settings I did not change the settings because in order for me to keep this card relevant compared to all of the other cards that I benchmark the testing suite must remain the same so I would rather take a high I would rather take a low-end card like this and keep it on high settings to see what the worst case scenario is then to take a high-end card and put it at medium settings and have the numbers be inflated through the roof so this is why I left the settings very high to show you worst case scenario so if you bump this down to say medium settings in Crysis 3 you'd get much closer to the 6 the FPS you might not hit it but you'd get much much closer minimum FPS when overclocked 26 FPS versus thirty eight average mmm not a very good number for you no the master race where we were like we love 60fps or higher but it does get the job done at very high settings drop those settings and enjoy much better frame rates far cry 4 look at that I experienced something weird with Far Cry and this is probably new driver related but every time I loaded the game whether it be overclocked or not the game crashed so that's why we have no Far Cry benchmarks and battlefield 4 as you can see as a game gets older the lower end graphics cards have no problem running it above 60fps when at factory clocks and 51 minimum very good number 50 minimum this is all margin of error right here obviously when is one FPS difference but 70 FPS average when overclocked so you can get into some fun gaming like Battlefield 4 on ultra preset with 2x msaa on a 950 graphics card and have no problems playing that whatsoever alright so let's go ahead and talk about some final thoughts I will revisit these test case scenario to say at the price point it should you go with a 950 or should you go with a 370 from AMD I'm curious the base price of a 950 is about 159 bucks this one comes in at $20 more at 179 which puts it only $39 less than say in r9 380 so as you saw from the benchmarks you you can get more performance out of a 380 than a 950 obviously but at a higher price point and we could say that all day long right well you know a 380 only costing 219 if you only spent $40 more than you could get you know like a 3 million be and we can do that all the way up to the tight neck so it's up to you to decide what's your max dollar you're willing to spend is I can't do that for you you guys have to do that now I achieved fifteen hundred and fifty-five megahertz which is one hundred megahertz higher than the boost clock went automatically without me touching anything and there was an increase in performance with that hundred megahertz that's a decent percentage especially when you look at where the base clock is on this at a thousand and 24 megahertz so you're getting over 500 megahertz booster over 50% improvement over where the base clock was in fact if you know if we ran this thing only at 10:24 without a boost clock that would be a gutless Pig it's still at high settings was not doing the massive FPS but again that's high settings I wanted to keep it static with the same suite the way I run all my tests the same so if you bump down the settings on this card you'd get even higher FPS this card is not intended for even high settings at 1080p are all very high or Ultra settings but at least I showed you guys what the worst case scenario would possibly be now we're going to just kind of slide right into the subjective part of this review where I say I don't really know why this card exists I mean they're marketing this card towards MOBA gamers games like League of Legends and dota 2 and games like that where you don't need a lot of horsepower to run those games you really done there Naughton graphically intensive and the 960 already does that that's what they've said the 960 was designed for and I'm not sure that this card offers enough performance increase at its current price point to say that it makes sense to jump from something like say a 750 Ti into a 950 when nine games like League of Legends are already running fine on cards like the 750ti or even like the 270 or 270x on AMD I'm not sure a lot of people are going to really jump out and buy a 950 to get marginal increases I thought honestly when we got the notice that we're going to be seeing a new graphics card that we were going to be seeing the 960 Ti or something like that because they've done this in the past with the 660ti that was stronger more CUDA cores more aggressive overclocking and did fantastic in RPGs and fps and simulators and just really kind of slid right in between some of the mainstream and enthusiast type of graphics cards so you guys tell me does the 950 make sense to you now I'm going to go back and review this card comparing it directly to the r9 370 I think the bets I mean when it comes to the entry-level market in graphics cards those two are going to be probably duking it out like you know phrase in Muhammad Ali I mean it's going to be a hell of a battle especially since that's the more reasonable price point that a lot of people are looking at with graphics cards which is $200 or less so anyway guys thanks for watching this video tell me how you think about this card do you think it really fits in with this space that it's currently at you guys tell me that's it for today guys thanks for watching this review of the gtx 950 for the win from EVGA as always hit me up on the social media it's right over here if you guys don't want to do any of that well then we'll just go and talk to you at the next video so anyway thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one