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well the 980ti and Titan acts or Nvidia might be super exciting cards the cards that are really flying off shelves aren't usually they those top tier bank breaking beast machines they're they're more reasonable workhorses just like with cars people like to look at the top end for what they want and then trickle down from there to what they can naturally realistically afford but let's take a moment to leave that sports car on the lot and take a spin in the sedan like this video if you want to see scrapyard Wars 3 the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories click now to learn more as far as raw tech specs go the gtx 950 is rocking 768 cuda cores with a base clock of 1024 and a boost clock of 1188 on memory side of things that has 2 gigs of gddr5 running at 6.6 gigabits per second on a 128-bit wide memory interface it also supports 4 displays and 2-way SLI Nvidia is lining up the performance of this product with their previous gtx 760 and all of that was probably pretty expected what was really cool with the launch of this was that Nvidia brought to the table a whole bunch of software options first up in terms of those software options we have latency and videos built some stuff into GeForce experience that will automatically improve the latency and MOBA games and by a pretty considerable amount in their testing they marked the input latency of a GTX 650 in dota 2 to be about 80 milliseconds and the input latency of a 950 to be only 45 milliseconds a pretty massive improvement of 35 milliseconds they do this by reducing the number of pre-rendered frames from two to just one so that they no longer have to buffer multiple frames which made a fairly significant amount of input latency after that the changes become a little bit more basic and focus around game settings like setting it to full screen instead of just borderless mode which while it's helpful for compatibility can hurt your input latency numbers so you can optimize your MOBA game for all tamal refresh rate frame rate latency and image quality in one click pretty slick but for those of you on higher-end NVIDIA GPU you may be wondering where the heck your latency enhancing button is well Nvidia is only launching this improvement for 950 owners at first but never fear it will be coming at a later date next up we have stream but I'll get to what exactly stream is in a moment with the stream update shadow play has gotten easier to use now when you're in game if you hold alt and then press a Z a handy in-game menu will pop up with your shadow play options and they even now allow you to trim and upload your videos directly to YouTube add up to 4k resolution and 60fps badass also in the previously mentioned alt Z menu you may have noticed the new stream button this allows you to either just stream your gameplay directly to a friend to show off that fancy new title that your buddy didn't have the cash for but wants to see and whatnot or show them how to beat a certain encounter in a certain game or even play with them with game stream coop coop supports mirrored controls and integrated voice chats you can coach someone on how to play a game and share the controls with them at the same time or play games that actually support co-op mode like say trine 3 Nvidia recommends an up-and-down stream of around 7 megabits per second for both the host and the guest PCs respectively now finally benchmarking and performance here with me today I have not one but two badass graphics cards one for my soos and one from EVGA let's get the showdown started they sous 950 Strix is $10 cheaper on Amazon at 170 dollars and features a stock memory set up with an advertised boost clock speed of 13 55 although that doesn't really mean much if you're wondering why that doesn't mean much check out this video here where I investigate the inner workings of the mysterious GPU boost the Strix features dual DVI out DisplayPort and HDMI on the back and is kind of a compact design with a smaller heatsink and smaller fans than the EVGA card we'll see in a moment it also features 6 pin power and a nice flat matte black PCB on the back of the card the EVGA 950 for the win card is a little longer and $10 more expensive on Amazon at 180 dollars still featuring a stock memory setup but with an improved advertised clock speed of 1405 for IO it has triple DisplayPort HDMI and DVI it features an 8 pin power instead of 6 pin power has a nice wicked-looking backplate and a much beefier cooler performance wise it was rather unsurprising in terms of results not bad mind you just unsurprising unfortunately I don't have an R 9 380 to test against that would have been a fairly interesting comparison at only $20 more but I think you guys will get the gist of it anyways the performance difference between the two 950 s wasn't huge but in my opinion probably worth the $10 Delta to be fair though there's something to be said about the compact size of the asus strix card a lot of people are building small systems these days and may not be looking for longer cards just something to keep in mind in terms of raw GPU boost performance the asus strix 950 got a boost clock of fourteen hundred and thirty megahertz solid more than their advertised number that's cool the EVGA for the win 950 got 1493 however for the same GPU having a delta of 63 megahertz is actually fairly significant and pretty interesting in conclusion I was happy to see Nvidia dropped some really cool new software tech for both performance and raw features both system builders and mid to your gaming rig buyers have a new variable to consider which is always a good thing more options is good and it's a pretty solid card at that awesome show great job and on that subject master opcom which is based around the concept of group bys where people would get together and they'd be like a bunch of people on a forum or 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