Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 Xtreme Gaming edition

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/24/2015 09:14 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

Gigabyte released new 'Xtreme Gaming' series graphics cards. We review the first one ever in that line, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 Xtreme Gaming OC edition. Armed with a custom PCB, PCB coating and a new revision cooler. Gigabyte offers this new Xtreme Gaming edition with some impressive factory tweaks. and really high clock frequencies this card sits pretty nicely in the 1080P domain.

Read the full review here.

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Fedorro
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#5163358 Posted on: 09/24/2015 11:54 AM

Hello Everyone.

Well. Not really so Extreme.

Undying
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#5163361 Posted on: 09/24/2015 12:00 PM

Whats the point of 960 if 950 is 5-10% slower? Even the pricing is close...

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#5163370 Posted on: 09/24/2015 12:09 PM

It's called saturating the market with new products, part of the reason nvidia has about 80% of the market share.

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#5163394 Posted on: 09/24/2015 01:16 PM

They are saturating wrong segment. I would rather see them filling the gap between 960 and 970.

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#5163405 Posted on: 09/24/2015 01:41 PM

The only games that these things can play @60fps my 660 can too :sleep:

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#5163408 Posted on: 09/24/2015 01:45 PM

So where can I find a GTX950 for 150eur in the Netherlands...

Undying
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#5163411 Posted on: 09/24/2015 01:52 PM

So where can I find a GTX950 for 150eur in the Netherlands...

Nowhere. Cheapest i saw here is 185Eur so thats what you can expect too. Not worth it imo.

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#5163460 Posted on: 09/24/2015 03:05 PM

There´s such a appealing market between the 960 and 970, they could score gold there with a 960 ti or something. This 950/960 ratio is nonsense.

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#5163474 Posted on: 09/24/2015 03:27 PM

Give me a SFF 950 with no extra power input then I will be impressed. Slapping the title "Extreme" and a big cooler on a chip that could be passively cooled is not impresive.

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#5163559 Posted on: 09/24/2015 06:42 PM

This thing is nonsense... indeed... blasphemy for the PC master race actually

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Well awaiting Intel to mop these cards off...

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#5163569 Posted on: 09/24/2015 07:15 PM

They are saturating wrong segment. I would rather see them filling the gap between 960 and 970.

There´s such a appealing market between the 960 and 970, they could score gold there with a 960 ti or something. This 950/960 ratio is nonsense.

I have a strong feeling in month and half to three months from now they'll gonna release something between 960 and 970, will it be called GTX960Ti or GTX965 time will tell. Guess it's gonna be on 256bit bus with 3GB or 4GB of VRAM and GPU specs similar to GTX960. That will be a sweet spot for those gaming in 1080p/1440p. Guess NVidia is just harvesting money from 950/960 and when 1080p gaming market saturates with these they'll gona bump it with 960Ti/965 or whatever they'll gonna call it. Hope it'll happen...

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#5164187 Posted on: 09/25/2015 08:45 PM

The only thing I find particularly appealing about this GPU is it's overclockability. Those OC results make it fairly competitive for the price.

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#5164811 Posted on: 09/27/2015 12:38 PM

Great Review and a BEAST CARD!!!

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#5164816 Posted on: 09/27/2015 12:52 PM

More like Xtreme Useless.

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#5165362 Posted on: 09/28/2015 04:54 PM

Gigabyte released new 'Xtreme Gaming' series graphics cards. We review the first one ever in that line, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 Xtreme Gaming OC edition. Armed with a custom PCB, PCB coating an...

Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 Xtreme Gaming edition

Hello

Can you like test videocards with some free games, like Dota2 Reborn(Source 2 engine) Wondering how much fps can high end videocards produce in new engines,which can support OpenGL,Dx11-10-9.
Im pretty sure that Battlefield frenchaise aint the most played videogames atm anymore

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