Ah man, this brings back a specific memory. When I used to flip cheapo gaming PCs I once got a GTX 950 for 30€, slotted it into an older HP i5 prebuilt and wanted to sell it on for a decent price as a Fortnite PC. Back then I offered delivering PCs within half an hour of my apartment, first day a guy messages me, really keen on buying the PC, asking if I could deliver it about 1 1/2 hours away. Was hesitant at first and told him that I'd have to charge a little extra in gas money, said he didn't mind cause he needs the PC to keep his R6 Siege rank after his old PC died. As a real Gamer™ I had to respect his grind and agreed, rarely had a happier buyer in my life!
Back when GPUs are meant to be for gamers... I have gtx950 right now, and I traded it for my 750ti and second steam account with high dota2 rank only :)
The longer time passes between the release of these cards and the newer games you're testing, the more they are becoming VRAM limited. The GPU core in itself seems to still hold up as of today, but the terrible lack of VRAM is really what kills them.
6:12 "Some parts of the world are far more demanding than others." As someone who has lived in multiple countries, I can assure you this is true. If you think life in America is hard, do not move to Asia.
@@rocketbunny2k24 Greetings from Indonesia, GPU parts in here literally skyrocketed. Even price of GTX 1060 or RX 580 literally on average wages, or even above for some people.
How's the fascism situation in Asia? I know that's kinda like asking what it is in the Americas or Europe, but it's also the main thing that makes me want to leave the US.
I own a laptop with the mobile version of this card with 1GB of Vram and used it for about a year, very pleased with it. Perfect for low detail gaming with the 720p display.
I had the 2GB variant in my old laptop. It would have been totally fine for 1080p in the games I play if the old dual core i5 would have aged as well as the GPU did. That's the reason I actually bought a laptop with 4800H and 1660ti, because I didn't want to ever see a CPU being such a hard limiter to an otherwise perfectly fine Laptop. (And also because the version with only 4 cores and the worse 1650 would have been 900€, so not even 100€ cheaper)
a tip for those low spec chads: on games where you get less than 60 fps use a controller (especially games where you get that annoying like cursor glitchy)
yep. set it to half your monitor's framerate too with vsync. far more consistent experience than going from 35-50 fps with a mouse. of course this is just personal preference.
I love how you always focus on the hardware that many people don't bother talking about anymore. Always fun to see how well the old hardware takes on the challenge of todays games. Keep up the good work!
Honestly, this is why this fella is probably my favorite TH-camr PC nerd, he shows us what generally what the average consumer could go get and run games on. Some people just want Fortnite or COD or now even halo which the card will sadly not run halo, but it'll game for the most part.
I feel like the performance should be compared with the 3400G or the 5600G , which kind of makes the bare minimum for any gaming experience this days . Still great video
@@RandomGaminginHD then it's still a viable card for anyone looking to game , on a budget , that might already have this laying around , got it for free or on a good deal .
I think this is my first time actually seeing a 950. back then you're either on 750ti cos you can literally run everything on it, or you'll get the 960 and 970 if you to upgrade to the 900 series cardt. 950 is so overlooked imo
Could you try Magpie FSR upscaler or Lossless scaling from steam? It emulates FSR for games even if they doesn't support by default. most of the games works with it and I think it is a nice idea for you to make a whole video of it too
Lossless Scaling does a really good job, I tested it on my GTX 660, but I noticed that it causes stuttering when your running games with framerate under the monitor's refresh rate. But it's feels a lot smoother if you enable Vsync and the card can keep the fremarate stable. Performance-wise, I noticed a ~10% loss when comparing the native resolution vs upscaling it to 1080p.
I have a gtx 950, currently playing f1 2020, it has amd fsr upscaling option but it looks like ps2 game when turned on, Im not sure why... Aliasing is massive and textures are sharp mess...
FSR just helped so soooo many gamers on a budget. Thankfully I'm at a point in my life where I can always have the good stuff in my rig, but there was a time when I wasn't. I wish I would've had something like FSR or DLSS back then, would've been amazing. Such a game changer. I gotta give both companies kudos for even doing something like that. Opposed to just pushing their newer products on people as the only means of a performance gain. I'm interested to see the challenger FSR take on DLSS, as DLSS has really reached it's stride most recently. So much competition, definitely worth the wait to see the big 3 duking it out again!
I still have a GTX 950 in my system. I do have to say it shocked me how much it still holds up when playing re6,far cry 5,dead space 1 and 2. Though I wish I could buy a new card if it weren't for todays horrible gpu prices.
I know it's actually more of a different GPU, but my old Laptop has a GTX 950m. I used it until March this year and the biggest performance limiter was actually the old i5 6200u with it's two cores. The GPU sat at 20-30 percent in World of Warcraft and CSGO and my CPU was crippling my performance to 40-50 fps. Games that relied more on the GPU did fine though.
This was my first real intro to dedicated PC gaming. I made due with integrated graphics for years, I put something like 100 hours into Battlefield 4 at 720p on the lowest settings and was lucky to get 20fps. Then I slapped this bad boy in and melted my own face off with 1080p on medium settings at a whopping 40fps. It was a turning point in my life.
I have the gtx970 and it's the sweet entry spot for 1080p/144hz in 2021. The 950 was weak for 1080p even when the 900series was new... So if in 2021 you still play in 720p you can use It otherwise change it with a 1050ti or a 1060 if you can.
I upgraded from a GT 710 2gb to a GTX 950 2gb and the difference is incredible. Does the job quite well, especially for esport games and games like gta
Well, my 970 died a few days ago, now I had to put this one back in. At 1550mhz core clock it's somewhat decent, but the lack of memory is killing me in most games.
@@lukxkra Code 43. It was on it's last legs for a while now. If I restarted my pc, it would usually give out that error and the drivers wouldn't load. Sometimes another reset would fix it, sometimes I would need to ddu and reinstall the drivers. But now nothing worked, every time I was installing drivers it got stuck on black screen.
@@Ficii1 That's unfortunate. I always had my GTX 950 FTW (my first gaming GPU) OC'ed to within an inch of it's life so it died in 2 years brand new in box, replaced with a used R9 390 for $90 that died the same exact way your GTX 970 died in less than a month... Then ironically I replaced the dead R9 390 with a used Zotac GTX 970 for $100 that I've used for about 2 years with 0 issues now to this day, but I've also never OC'ed it since I've owned it either as I learned my lesson with my GTX 950, and the price of a replacement GTX 970 in the current market is around double at $200 which is really annoying.. So I'm basically just trying to make it last as long as I possibly can at this point.
@@2K-Tan Well, I bought my 950 about 3 years ago for 70€. I had it in my previous system for about a year before I upgraded the whole system. It was way too fast for the cpu I had, so I never really needed to OC it. It ran at 1400-1410mhz, basically stock boost speed that EVGA gave it, but coming back to it from 970, even with the 150mhz+ core OC it feels slow. It sat on my shelf for 2 years and luckily, In the current market, I'm quite happy I kept it.
@@Ficii1 Yeah dude the current market is brutal, It's a good thing you held onto it for sure because of these scalpers.. I'll be pulling for the market to return to normal soon so you can everyone else can get out and buy a GPU for a reasonable price! I know it's probably not very fun dealing with going from 970 performance back down to a 950. This scalping is just brutal and should be criminal in my opinion.
Great video as always! I've had some luck using my 950 on a 1600x900 monitor with all settings set to low in games. Hopefully we'll see some performance gains in the future with fidelityFX becoming more mainstream.
This video was right on point for me. I have the exact same setup except my 950 is a stock overclocked EVGA FTW card. It has aged well for the money these card were new. Not really into the newest games so it still works well enough on older titles.
Good review. Got this particular card and I can get a very easy +200mhz on the GPU and +700mhz on the VRAM overclock with MSI Afterburner (Max power limit, no voltage tweaks needed). Would be interesting to see your results with that overclock.
I love this man. Almost every night while going to bed I throw on a random video from this channel and it’s as if I’m hearing a tech hoarders bed time story. RGHD keep it up you legend
I nearly went for one of these 4 years ago, but thanks to a change of ISP that offered a pre loaded visa card as an incentive, I was able to afford a GTX 1060 - still got it now.
I used to use a GTX 950 (EVGA FTW) 2015- mid 2020. It was a good card for what I wanted it to do but I started feeling it's age near before I upgraded it glad to see its performing well even after all these years.
Have you thought about doing a linux vs windows performance video? Gaming on linux is quickly becoming more viable with proton, and obviously steam releasing the deck soon I think it would be interesting.
Good review and nice to see that you've got both 30fps and 60fps settings where applicable. Personally, I'd tend to go for 1080p (or whatever the best settings are) and aim for 30fps, though this might be different for some games. Also, I have the 960 in my tower PC, but the 2GB variant, so only just above this 950 in terms of performance? I won't upgrade yet though due to GPU prices - if anything, I'll just build a new tower PC when the time comes.
Got one on order for a build. Client is into Fortnite, CSGO, Pubg, Valorant, Paladins, Rocket League, GTA V...this will be ideal considering gpu prices today.
I am still using the 950, as a replacement of a radeon 270x that died around 5 years ago. Using it on a i3 3220 and 8GB of ram. I mostly play stuff like Elderscrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, SWTOR, Star Trek Online , War Thunder and World of Warships, as Miltiplayer games. GTA 5, Fallout 4, Civ 6 and Cities Skylines as Singles player ones. All games may run pretty well. but.. my computer, now at least 10 years old could really need an upgrade, not only to play new games, but to keep up with old ones that kepps being upgraded.
Have you done a 970 video? I've got the 970 version of that card (4gb vram etc) and it's pretty good for 1080p gaming even today, I got it for like 80 euros last year before the big gpu shortages but now I see it go for a lot more unfortunately.
I have the exact card. Paired with my hefty i5-4460. Does well on some games but I mostly tune down the settings for me to play decent 60fps+. Want to retire this old beast but GPU prices are too horrible right now.
Love your vids man have been watching them for like 3 years already. You should really do a new setup tour on how you do these vids and I’m also very intrigued what PC specs you run!
The 950 was my first gpu when I got into building pc's as a hobby. I traded it up for a 970 on Craigslist, bought another one and ran two 970s in sli. Moved onto a 5700xt after that... which I then used in my son's first pc, right after I upgraded to a 3070. Anyway, it was a good little card that got me into building pc's.
My GTX 950's fan kicked the bucket. Didn't have any spare compatible fans so I just rammed a pentium 4 cooler right on the heatsink and plugged it to the AUX connector on my motherboard. Oddly enough that was an upgrade in comparison with the original fan. Runs cooler and quieter.
That's the exact same card I had to put in my friends build in Jan 2020, I told her we'd wait for some used 20 series cards to hit eBay and get her something nicer like a 2070 or 2060 at a discount later in the year when the 30 series came out. Boy oh boy did I ever play that move wrong! Thankfully the 950 2GB/R5 1600AF is a big upgrade over the GT430/C2D E5200 she'd been using up until then.
I have a system with the SC version of this card. Whisper quiet and about 55c is the highest it will go even on a heavy overclock. They might not be the best thing ever but considering you can run recent games like cod warfare, control, and others it's not a horrible deal. I picked one up for $120 to throw in a HTPC that's used for streaming my main library and playing a few games from my couch.
Funny you post this, nearly bought this for my partner's dad, building cheap build for him with my old PC parts for his music work. Went with a GDDR5 GT710 in the end, just wanted to comment to A) Share my story and B) Help with dat algorithm. Keep up the great work!
@@sanskii2347 not really... the 3060 just doesnt provide the bandwith to utilize its VRAM... it has like 4 gigs too much, the 3060 with 8 gigs would win and ultimately be even cheaper at MSRP... right now, its way to expensive and pretty much loses to AMD everywhere and just isnt good overall... if you paid msrp, you got lucky, its a decent card then, otherwise its useless
I have this GPU except mine is the Zotac version, it's a banger honestly, cost me 80$ in April this year, and I've been rocking tons of games at 1366x768 at high settings since maybe it's not super crips image but I get great performance and good visuals
I had this card for a very short while (cuz my mobo broke soon and I sold the card, this happened around 2 years ago). It ran nearly everything I threw at it; AC Black Flag, Unity and Syndicate, Resident Evil 2 remake, etc. Despite spending so little time with it, I'll always remember it fondly.
It's actually a quite good card in SLI modes. Two is better than one in this case. In stock SLI this card has been tested to outperform one 8GB RX 5500 OC'ed.
im actually running the gtx 960 4gb version, I was going to replace it at the start of 2021 with my new rig, but the prices have been insanely inflated
Sold mine last year when the price was too right to not part ways with... I got it my senior year of highschool so I could play Fallout 4 on launch, which is ironic because the problem with my older card was its 1GB VRAM limitation. Some things just never change, I guess.
I still own this GPU. It's a fallen Goddess. My old babygirl (msi 950) still serves me well. BTW RANDOMGAMINGHD IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN, I LOVE YOUUU (from bangladesh)
I enjoy your very informative videoes..I am new to gaming,,you mention Cex a lot on here.I bought some PC CD ROMS from there ,some of them dont have a a cd key serial in them.Don,t you need that to play the game?If that is the case why are they selling them without them?Hope your day is going well.Keep up the good worj.
I had the same 950 strix it was good for the time and price I went from a random gtx 550 pc To i3-6100/gtx 950 Then i5-8400/gtx1060 Sadly due to prices here in Australia it's a lot to get higher end gpus even back then
You know. I'd like to see you play and benchmark(if you own the game) Metro Exodus again. It's a really good looking game and now it has another version. I've been trying my best at getting FSR with my Lossless Scaling program from Steam to play at 1080p(I have to change the game file to 'windowed' cause the game defaults to fullscreen and lossless scaling works with windowed screens). I have a GTX 1050 2GB,, and I'm lucky to have it overclocked crazy cause I put a beefy cooler on it to play Metro Exodus in this way with a 60 to 30fps range with many jutters in between. The game is also on my SSD too. I just wonder that if your curious and it isn't going out if your way. If you already have the game on a drive. How would the GTX 950 2GB fair in Metro Exodus today in 2021 ? Along with other cards and apus? Might make a good video. I'm just giving an idea. Only if it's interesting to you and how you would approach with your testing. I like your videos as always. Keep up the amazing work. 😊
I have a GTX 950 and it plays all games on 720p.Recently games like RD2 and Horizon gave me a warning but i used a hack for RD2 and Horizon looked good too.
Can you add Back 4 Blood to your benchmark run? I've read that their optimization is fantastic and will push 60fps on epic settings on a 1050 2GB. I would love to see more games featured that are well optimized to show that it's not always about better hardware.
Hey, what about test the game Back 4 Blood? It's very optimized, and it has FSR & DLSS so is a great rest for entry level GPUs like 1050 ti RX 550/560 and Vega iGPUs
Ah man, this brings back a specific memory. When I used to flip cheapo gaming PCs I once got a GTX 950 for 30€, slotted it into an older HP i5 prebuilt and wanted to sell it on for a decent price as a Fortnite PC. Back then I offered delivering PCs within half an hour of my apartment, first day a guy messages me, really keen on buying the PC, asking if I could deliver it about 1 1/2 hours away. Was hesitant at first and told him that I'd have to charge a little extra in gas money, said he didn't mind cause he needs the PC to keep his R6 Siege rank after his old PC died. As a real Gamer™ I had to respect his grind and agreed, rarely had a happier buyer in my life!
Back when GPUs are meant to be for gamers... I have gtx950 right now, and I traded it for my 750ti and second steam account with high dota2 rank only :)
The grind is real man, the grind is real.
did you really trademark gamer lmfao
your efforts to the Gamer™ cause will not go unnoticed, soldier!
@@s8nbre i just started playing dota 2 its pretty fun but idk what im doing lol
The longer time passes between the release of these cards and the newer games you're testing, the more they are becoming VRAM limited. The GPU core in itself seems to still hold up as of today, but the terrible lack of VRAM is really what kills them.
No...really?! 😑
@@MisterDevos Alright please, I beg you, please shut the hell up mate.
thats why i bought a 380 4GB back then.
A 4 gig version of this would have been awesome. After all, the 750 and 750ti have 4 gig variants and that really helps them out
What Maxwell card has the most VRAM? I wonder how a Maxwell Titan would compare to a modern card in certain games
1:29 "It's clear Cyberpunk is in here somewhere underneath the eye strain and headache inducing graphics."
With these GPU you can play Cyberpunk at 35FPS low settings 768p... And... Overcloqued
But I still loving the 950
Just need to squint your eyes for some good ol built in anti-aliasing!
They actually optimized Cyberbug 2077 :D
72p flashbacks
This thing aged really well for being a 6 year old entry level card.
That's not entry level, it's low mid range
@@konstantinzarkovic7567 What was the entry level card at the time?
@@konstantinzarkovic7567 entry level gaming gpu, it wasnt eve nthat good when it came out, barely any improvements over the legendary 750ti
@@manuelmunguia616 barely? really?
@@R3in_Ch yes
6:12 "Some parts of the world are far more demanding than others."
As someone who has lived in multiple countries, I can assure you this is true. If you think life in America is hard, do not move to Asia.
Oh boy I 💯 agree to this. Greetings from Philippines!
I can 100% confirm to this as an Asian
@@rocketbunny2k24 Greetings from Indonesia, GPU parts in here literally skyrocketed. Even price of GTX 1060 or RX 580 literally on average wages, or even above for some people.
How's the fascism situation in Asia? I know that's kinda like asking what it is in the Americas or Europe, but it's also the main thing that makes me want to leave the US.
@@pahlevymu yeah GPU pricing here in PH as well are crazy high especially RTX GPUs costing from 500 to 1,000 USD.
I own a laptop with the mobile version of this card with 1GB of Vram and used it for about a year, very pleased with it. Perfect for low detail gaming with the 720p display.
I had the 2GB variant in my old laptop. It would have been totally fine for 1080p in the games I play if the old dual core i5 would have aged as well as the GPU did.
That's the reason I actually bought a laptop with 4800H and 1660ti, because I didn't want to ever see a CPU being such a hard limiter to an otherwise perfectly fine Laptop.
(And also because the version with only 4 cores and the worse 1650 would have been 900€, so not even 100€ cheaper)
@@EragoEntertainment used to have the i5 7200u and 950m 2gb gdrr5 ver laptop but now it won't turn on anymore :(
@@Yerinjibbang Wanna sell it me
@@benevans5977 yeah unless you live in singapore i can sell it locally haha
Im a proud owner of a gtx 950 for my main pc since 2015. It aged well
I am proud owner of intel hd 4000 since 2017
But its now 100 years old
@@yvonneho876 hahaha
a tip for those low spec chads: on games where you get less than 60 fps use a controller (especially games where you get that annoying like cursor glitchy)
yep. set it to half your monitor's framerate too with vsync. far more consistent experience than going from 35-50 fps with a mouse. of course this is just personal preference.
that is what i use works really well
Yep, even playing with 30 fps cap i can easily deal with that using a controller, on the other hand playing with a mouse is painful
@@s0m3onesomewhere yeah shit sucks really bad lol
I love how you always focus on the hardware that many people don't bother talking about anymore. Always fun to see how well the old hardware takes on the challenge of todays games. Keep up the good work!
Honestly, this is why this fella is probably my favorite TH-camr PC nerd, he shows us what generally what the average consumer could go get and run games on. Some people just want Fortnite or COD or now even halo which the card will sadly not run halo, but it'll game for the most part.
Good to see FC6 in the benchmarks! The 950 holds up quite well!
Seeing the GTX 950(first GPU I'd ever purchased and owned) run fc6...not gonna lie...almost pooped myself!
Trying its best with more RAM than I had in any system at all until 2008, including main memory!
I feel like the performance should be compared with the 3400G or the 5600G , which kind of makes the bare minimum for any gaming experience this days . Still great video
I was wondering that actually, I think the 950 still wins. Just about. I’ll have to test it now haha
950 is much better
that could be a really neat comparison
@@RandomGaminginHD then it's still a viable card for anyone looking to game , on a budget , that might already have this laying around , got it for free or on a good deal .
@@RandomGaminginHD I'm 98% positive the 950 will win, just due to the fact it's discrete and not sharing any memory.
I think this is my first time actually seeing a 950. back then you're either on 750ti cos you can literally run everything on it, or you'll get the 960 and 970 if you to upgrade to the 900 series cardt. 950 is so overlooked imo
Could you try Magpie FSR upscaler or Lossless scaling from steam? It emulates FSR for games even if they doesn't support by default. most of the games works with it and I think it is a nice idea for you to make a whole video of it too
Awesome I’ll take a look
Lossless Scaling does a really good job, I tested it on my GTX 660, but I noticed that it causes stuttering when your running games with framerate under the monitor's refresh rate. But it's feels a lot smoother if you enable Vsync and the card can keep the fremarate stable. Performance-wise, I noticed a ~10% loss when comparing the native resolution vs upscaling it to 1080p.
yeah combination lossless scaling FSR Lite and FXAA looks very native/dont eat much fps
I have a gtx 950, currently playing f1 2020, it has amd fsr upscaling option but it looks like ps2 game when turned on, Im not sure why... Aliasing is massive and textures are sharp mess...
@@RandomGaminginHD im not a youtuber but one of my experimental videos is actually a magpie fsr guide if you want to check it out. :)
FSR just helped so soooo many gamers on a budget. Thankfully I'm at a point in my life where I can always have the good stuff in my rig, but there was a time when I wasn't. I wish I would've had something like FSR or DLSS back then, would've been amazing.
Such a game changer.
I gotta give both companies kudos for even doing something like that. Opposed to just pushing their newer products on people as the only means of a performance gain.
I'm interested to see the challenger FSR take on DLSS, as DLSS has really reached it's stride most recently.
So much competition, definitely worth the wait to see the big 3 duking it out again!
I still have a GTX 950 in my system. I do have to say it shocked me how much it still holds up when playing re6,far cry 5,dead space 1 and 2. Though I wish I could buy a new card if it weren't for todays horrible gpu prices.
I know it's actually more of a different GPU, but my old Laptop has a GTX 950m. I used it until March this year and the biggest performance limiter was actually the old i5 6200u with it's two cores. The GPU sat at 20-30 percent in World of Warcraft and CSGO and my CPU was crippling my performance to 40-50 fps.
Games that relied more on the GPU did fine though.
been watching as my 950 gets more and more outdated. luckily i play a lot of older games
Yeah it’s still great for older titles :)
Same here with my zotac 1050 2gb mini. If it runs, I'm okay. 4 years, still kicking.
Same here on 1050 2 gig, until i got 1060 6 gig for 200 bucks, 3 days ago
@@R411aj ouch
Same here with my GMA 3000
Back then GTX 750 Ti is the king, now the prices are ridiculous and i'm glad GTX 950 was overlooked
This was my first real intro to dedicated PC gaming. I made due with integrated graphics for years, I put something like 100 hours into Battlefield 4 at 720p on the lowest settings and was lucky to get 20fps. Then I slapped this bad boy in and melted my own face off with 1080p on medium settings at a whopping 40fps. It was a turning point in my life.
Found the channel at random a few months back and still loving the content all the time. Absolute legend👌💯
I have the gtx970 and it's the sweet entry spot for 1080p/144hz in 2021.
The 950 was weak for 1080p even when the 900series was new... So if in 2021 you still play in 720p you can use It otherwise change it with a 1050ti or a 1060 if you can.
I upgraded from a GT 710 2gb to a GTX 950 2gb and the difference is incredible. Does the job quite well, especially for esport games and games like gta
Well, my 970 died a few days ago, now I had to put this one back in. At 1550mhz core clock it's somewhat decent, but the lack of memory is killing me in most games.
What hapend witj your 970?
@@lukxkra Code 43. It was on it's last legs for a while now. If I restarted my pc, it would usually give out that error and the drivers wouldn't load. Sometimes another reset would fix it, sometimes I would need to ddu and reinstall the drivers. But now nothing worked, every time I was installing drivers it got stuck on black screen.
@@Ficii1 That's unfortunate. I always had my GTX 950 FTW (my first gaming GPU) OC'ed to within an inch of it's life so it died in 2 years brand new in box, replaced with a used R9 390 for $90 that died the same exact way your GTX 970 died in less than a month... Then ironically I replaced the dead R9 390 with a used Zotac GTX 970 for $100 that I've used for about 2 years with 0 issues now to this day, but I've also never OC'ed it since I've owned it either as I learned my lesson with my GTX 950, and the price of a replacement GTX 970 in the current market is around double at $200 which is really annoying.. So I'm basically just trying to make it last as long as I possibly can at this point.
@@2K-Tan Well, I bought my 950 about 3 years ago for 70€. I had it in my previous system for about a year before I upgraded the whole system. It was way too fast for the cpu I had, so I never really needed to OC it. It ran at 1400-1410mhz, basically stock boost speed that EVGA gave it, but coming back to it from 970, even with the 150mhz+ core OC it feels slow. It sat on my shelf for 2 years and luckily, In the current market, I'm quite happy I kept it.
@@Ficii1 Yeah dude the current market is brutal, It's a good thing you held onto it for sure because of these scalpers.. I'll be pulling for the market to return to normal soon so you can everyone else can get out and buy a GPU for a reasonable price! I know it's probably not very fun dealing with going from 970 performance back down to a 950. This scalping is just brutal and should be criminal in my opinion.
It's amazing how well does a 2gb video card with modern games! Maybe, my 2 gb card might do similarly good with older games too.
I love how he puts his cards on a boulder, not worried about grinding the back of the PCB and accidentally breaking it
Great video as always! I've had some luck using my 950 on a 1600x900 monitor with all settings set to low in games. Hopefully we'll see some performance gains in the future with fidelityFX becoming more mainstream.
This video was right on point for me. I have the exact same setup except my 950 is a stock overclocked EVGA FTW card. It has aged well for the money these card were new. Not really into the newest games so it still works well enough on older titles.
Nice, what r u playing?
Good review. Got this particular card and I can get a very easy +200mhz on the GPU and +700mhz on the VRAM overclock with MSI Afterburner (Max power limit, no voltage tweaks needed). Would be interesting to see your results with that overclock.
I love this man. Almost every night while going to bed I throw on a random video from this channel and it’s as if I’m hearing a tech hoarders bed time story. RGHD keep it up you legend
i still have one of these. bought it in 2015 and used it for a few years before getting a 1060. good memories
I nearly went for one of these 4 years ago, but thanks to a change of ISP that offered a pre loaded visa card as an incentive, I was able to afford a GTX 1060 - still got it now.
I used to use a GTX 950 (EVGA FTW) 2015- mid 2020. It was a good card for what I wanted it to do but I started feeling it's age near before I upgraded it glad to see its performing well even after all these years.
5,000th like, the GTX 950 aged quite nicely, after the 750 Ti and 1080 Ti. Wonder if Nvidia will make something similar to AMD's FineWine.
Have you thought about doing a linux vs windows performance video? Gaming on linux is quickly becoming more viable with proton, and obviously steam releasing the deck soon I think it would be interesting.
Good review and nice to see that you've got both 30fps and 60fps settings where applicable.
Personally, I'd tend to go for 1080p (or whatever the best settings are) and aim for 30fps, though this might be different for some games.
Also, I have the 960 in my tower PC, but the 2GB variant, so only just above this 950 in terms of performance? I won't upgrade yet though due to GPU prices - if anything, I'll just build a new tower PC when the time comes.
Oh hey my stopgap GPU I got before pascal came out! Still works well as a hand me down for younger siblings
Got one on order for a build. Client is into Fortnite, CSGO, Pubg, Valorant, Paladins, Rocket League, GTA V...this will be ideal considering gpu prices today.
I am still using the 950, as a replacement of a radeon 270x that died around 5 years ago.
Using it on a i3 3220 and 8GB of ram. I mostly play stuff like Elderscrolls Online, Guild Wars 2,
SWTOR, Star Trek Online , War Thunder and World of Warships, as Miltiplayer games. GTA 5, Fallout 4, Civ 6 and
Cities Skylines as Singles player ones. All games may run pretty well. but.. my computer, now at least 10
years old could really need an upgrade, not only to play new games, but to keep up with old ones that kepps being
upgraded.
Have you done a 970 video? I've got the 970 version of that card (4gb vram etc) and it's pretty good for 1080p gaming even today, I got it for like 80 euros last year before the big gpu shortages but now I see it go for a lot more unfortunately.
I still have my asus GTX 960 2gb card. Despite being old and low in memory, this 900 series has such nice cards. Also, lots of happy memories ❤️
Used one of these with a 2500k last year for a dota 2 pc!
A legendary CPU!
I have the exact card. Paired with my hefty i5-4460. Does well on some games but I mostly tune down the settings for me to play decent 60fps+. Want to retire this old beast but GPU prices are too horrible right now.
Yeah hold on a while for things to get a bit calmer. That 4460 is a personal favourite of mine too!
I had the 960. Literally the only thing holding it back is the vram. It is still a powerful card
I had the exact same card. Very nice to see how it does today.
Love your vids man have been watching them for like 3 years already. You should really do a new setup tour on how you do these vids and I’m also very intrigued what PC specs you run!
The 950 was my first gpu when I got into building pc's as a hobby. I traded it up for a 970 on Craigslist, bought another one and ran two 970s in sli. Moved onto a 5700xt after that... which I then used in my son's first pc, right after I upgraded to a 3070. Anyway, it was a good little card that got me into building pc's.
Was waiting for a review
But to me the 950 was doing relatively well, surprisingly.
My GTX 950's fan kicked the bucket. Didn't have any spare compatible fans so I just rammed a pentium 4 cooler right on the heatsink and plugged it to the AUX connector on my motherboard.
Oddly enough that was an upgrade in comparison with the original fan. Runs cooler and quieter.
That's the exact same card I had to put in my friends build in Jan 2020, I told her we'd wait for some used 20 series cards to hit eBay and get her something nicer like a 2070 or 2060 at a discount later in the year when the 30 series came out. Boy oh boy did I ever play that move wrong! Thankfully the 950 2GB/R5 1600AF is a big upgrade over the GT430/C2D E5200 she'd been using up until then.
I had one of those for awhile. Upgraded to gtx 1650 right before everything when hard to find, etc.
its always interesting to see hardware from 2014-2015 holds up now caus that was when i built my first pc
I have a high end RTX 3080 setup, and I just vibe to this guys budget build videos...
I used to run a 950 until two days ago when my psu decided it lived long enough. The card really did do everything I needed it to. I'll miss it
the psu took the card with it?
@@brym4467 it's highly likely. Though I don't have a second psu to test it out just yet. There's a bit of hope left!
Oh wow, i just got my GTX 950 from Aliexpress, and here you are, making video about it
I have a system with the SC version of this card. Whisper quiet and about 55c is the highest it will go even on a heavy overclock. They might not be the best thing ever but considering you can run recent games like cod warfare, control, and others it's not a horrible deal. I picked one up for $120 to throw in a HTPC that's used for streaming my main library and playing a few games from my couch.
Funny you post this, nearly bought this for my partner's dad, building cheap build for him with my old PC parts for his music work. Went with a GDDR5 GT710 in the end, just wanted to comment to A) Share my story and B) Help with dat algorithm.
Keep up the great work!
I still use a 950ti sometimes to play a game or 2 on my server, and it really shocked me how useful it still is to be as old as it is
I've recently been testing a Quadro K2200 which is somewhat equivalent to a 950 but with 4gb of VRAM.
This is the exact card I used until June when I upgraded to a 3060!
3060 has 12gb so it should be good for a long time
@@runescapefan0001 Nah. 12 GB VRAM means nothing on that card. RX6600 XT has 8 GB and it is faster. I'd rather go for RX6600 XT, than RTX 3060.
@@Q-bazZ faster for gaming, nvidia rtx 3060 is faster for majority of other applications of a gpu
@@sanskii2347 not really... the 3060 just doesnt provide the bandwith to utilize its VRAM... it has like 4 gigs too much, the 3060 with 8 gigs would win and ultimately be even cheaper at MSRP... right now, its way to expensive and pretty much loses to AMD everywhere and just isnt good overall... if you paid msrp, you got lucky, its a decent card then, otherwise its useless
You have gotten a lot of great usage from that 10400F. Do you have an AIO on it? Your temps are great.
Using this very card and it performs really well in the online games that I play. ❤️
you should try adding Biomutant to your benchmark list, it really looks nice and I wonder how lower end hardware would handle it
Been watching for almost 2 years, just realized I some how hadn't subscribed, my apologies. Sub button = smashed.
Thanks :)
Lol me with mxr
@@RandomGaminginHD what cpu and ram was used
@@zatchbell366 cpu is in the osd. i5 10400f
FSR has been a saving grace for those still running older cards, or lower end cards like me with my 1650.
I have this GPU except mine is the Zotac version, it's a banger honestly, cost me 80$ in April this year, and I've been rocking tons of games at 1366x768 at high settings since maybe it's not super crips image but I get great performance and good visuals
I had one of these, did the job in 2016 for 1080p, it's on par with a 1050 2GB actually, just needs a little extra juice becauses its 90W.
I had this card for a very short while (cuz my mobo broke soon and I sold the card, this happened around 2 years ago). It ran nearly everything I threw at it; AC Black Flag, Unity and Syndicate, Resident Evil 2 remake, etc. Despite spending so little time with it, I'll always remember it fondly.
This is the card I currently have, haha. I'm stuck with it until this crazy market crashes, but it's been serving me well.
Another great video. Just picked up a gtx 970 for $100.
My EVGA GTX950SC is holding on and im glad I have it but I can't wait to get my hands on RX6700XT
Was the only gpu I've ever used besides a 720m, wasn't bad, could play quite a few games.
It's actually a quite good card in SLI modes. Two is better than one in this case. In stock SLI this card has been tested to outperform one 8GB RX 5500 OC'ed.
Been rocking this card since 2015
My stepson still uses one for his rig. More than enough considering prices ona a new ones tbh
Don't forget to adjust sharpness in the Nvidia Control Panel / AMD equivalent when choose non-native monitor resolutions.
im actually running the gtx 960 4gb version, I was going to replace it at the start of 2021 with my new rig, but the prices have been insanely inflated
Sold mine last year when the price was too right to not part ways with... I got it my senior year of highschool so I could play Fallout 4 on launch, which is ironic because the problem with my older card was its 1GB VRAM limitation. Some things just never change, I guess.
I still own this GPU. It's a fallen Goddess. My old babygirl (msi 950) still serves me well. BTW RANDOMGAMINGHD IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN, I LOVE YOUUU (from bangladesh)
My first built gaming PC had a GTX960 4gb Strix. My Mum now owns it although she doesnt play GTA5, even tho its still on the desktop.
I’m right with you not being able to play village at night. I also have a difficult time with the baby monster part.
This is honestly impressive!
I enjoy your very informative videoes..I am new to gaming,,you mention Cex a lot on here.I bought some PC CD ROMS from there ,some of them dont have a a cd key serial in them.Don,t you need that to play the game?If that is the case why are they selling them without them?Hope your day is going well.Keep up the good worj.
do love the vid's "if you love flying planes in the sky". 😀, and the nice spread of game titles you use.
I had the same 950 strix it was good for the time and price
I went from a random gtx 550 pc
To
i3-6100/gtx 950
Then
i5-8400/gtx1060
Sadly due to prices here in Australia it's a lot to get higher end gpus even back then
you should play some breath of the wild on Cemu for some of the benchmarks, be interesting to see how well optimized it is for older hardware
Film himself commiting a crime.Great idea!
You know. I'd like to see you play and benchmark(if you own the game) Metro Exodus again. It's a really good looking game and now it has another version. I've been trying my best at getting FSR with my Lossless Scaling program from Steam to play at 1080p(I have to change the game file to 'windowed' cause the game defaults to fullscreen and lossless scaling works with windowed screens). I have a GTX 1050 2GB,, and I'm lucky to have it overclocked crazy cause I put a beefy cooler on it to play Metro Exodus in this way with a 60 to 30fps range with many jutters in between. The game is also on my SSD too.
I just wonder that if your curious and it isn't going out if your way. If you already have the game on a drive. How would the GTX 950 2GB fair in Metro Exodus today in 2021 ? Along with other cards and apus? Might make a good video. I'm just giving an idea. Only if it's interesting to you and how you would approach with your testing. I like your videos as always. Keep up the amazing work. 😊
Honestly better than expected
I am glad my Alienware Alpha came with the 4GB variant!
I have a GTX 950 and it plays all games on 720p.Recently games like RD2 and Horizon gave me a warning but i used a hack for RD2 and Horizon looked good too.
I like my 950. Works well for me. Got it for 100 bucks for my 5800x build (for now).
I actually just recently got my hands on a 960 4gb, and after seeing what the 950 can still do I'll be very happy when it gets here.
I have an 1050 2gb and im Happy :)
There's a 950 OEM version which has 4GB , but it's actually a lower clocked 960 - nvidia just called it 950 OEM.
Good Memories. This was my first GPU that I got
Can you add Back 4 Blood to your benchmark run? I've read that their optimization is fantastic and will push 60fps on epic settings on a 1050 2GB. I would love to see more games featured that are well optimized to show that it's not always about better hardware.
Out of the 50 cards listed in Techpowerup of the GTX 950...
Only 7 of them doesn't require a PCIe power-connector.
Hey, what about test the game Back 4 Blood? It's very optimized, and it has FSR & DLSS so is a great rest for entry level GPUs like 1050 ti RX 550/560 and Vega iGPUs
Ah man, my first gpu. That thing worked for so many years for me