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Synthetic Benchmarks
Unigine Heaven
Heaven Benchmark is a GPU-intensive benchmark that hammers graphics cards to the limits. This powerful tool can be effectively used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions, as well as check the cooling system’s potential under maximum heat output. It provides completely unbiased results and generates true, in-game rendering workloads across all platforms.
We ran Unigine Heaven 4.0 at the same settings we always use and the ASUS Strix GTX 950 DC2OC turned in a respectable 30.9 FPS and the benchmark ran without stuttering and to our eyes we saw no pauses, micro-stutters or other indications the video card was having problems.
Settings for Unigine Heaven
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3DMark Testing
Fire Strike
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 showcase benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
Considering the hardware and the price point of the ASUS Strix GTX 950 DC2OC it’s not running that far behind the GTX 960 pack and doing extremely well for a upper tier mainstream offering.
3DMark Skydiver
3DMark Sky Diver is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming laptops and mid-range PCs. Use 3DMark Sky Diver to benchmark systems with mainstream graphics cards, mobile GPUs, or integrated graphics.
The ASUS Strix GTX 950 DC2OC scored as well as the EVGA GTX 950 so we know we are in the sweet spot for GTX 950 performance and both turned out respectable scores of 23,000+ and GTX 950 is looking like one of the better mainstream offerings we’ve seen.
Nice review! any chance you do another with 2x 950’s on SLI and how they perform compared with a single 970 or even 980?
keep the good work!
No Matter what you do when running the GTX 950 in SLI the array of Video Cards wil still be limited to 2GB of memory on the first card so they aren’t going to compare well to a card with 4GB of memory video card. I did run SLI with a couple of 950’s and two scored 12k on 3DMark Skydiver if that’s any help. Jump the resolution up to 1440p and the SLI arrangement just won’t handle it being limited to 2 GB of memory.