well the 980 TI and Titan X from 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 the 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 for what they can actually realistically afford but let's take a
moment to leave that sports car on the lot and take a spin in the Sedan like
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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 the memory
side of things that has 2 gigs of gddr5 running at 6.6 gbits per second on a
128bit wide memory interface it also
supports four displays and two-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 in has built some stuff into GeForce experience
that will automatically improve the latency in mobile 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 mobile game for optimal 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
zed 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 at up to
4K resolution at 60 FPS badass also in
the previously mentioned altz 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 gamestream Co-op Co-op supports mirrored
controls and integrated voice chat so 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
downstream 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 from isus and one
from EVGA Let's Get The Showdown started the ASUS 950 stxs is $10 cheaper on
Amazon at $170 and features a stock memory setup
with an advertised boost clock speed of 1355 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
STX features dual DVI out DisplayPort and HDMI on the back and is kind of a
compact design with a smaller heat sink and smaller fans than the EVGA card
we'll see in a moment it also features six pin power and a nice flat matte
black PCB on the back of the card the EVGA 950 for the wi card is a little
longer and $10 more expensive on Amazon at
$180 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 six pin power has a nice Wicked looking back plate 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 R9 380 to
test against uh 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 950s 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 stxs 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 1430
MHz solid more than their advertise number that's cool the EVGA for the win
950 got 1,493 however for the same GPU having a
Delta of 63 MHz is actually fairly significant and pretty interesting in
conclusion I was happy to see NVIDIA drop some really cool new software tech
for both performance and raw features both system Builders and mid-tier 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
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