Reviewers Liked
- Performance
- Power consumption
- Overclocking
- Extremely quiet during gaming
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Too expensive compared to other options
- Smaller out of the box OC than competing cards
- Memory not overclocked
- No backplate included
MSI GeForce GTX 950 Gaming 2G GDDR5 PCIe N950-GAMING-2GB
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By techPowerUp!
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By Guru of 3D
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By LanOC Reviews
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By overclockers.com
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The addition of the GTX 950 to NVIDIA's product stack really fills out that budget/mid-range gap they had between the ‘old' GTX 750 Ti ($119) and the GTX 960 ($199). The GTX 750 Ti performance was significantly lower while the GTX 960 was higher...
By Modders-Inc
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By Neoseeker
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By Overclockers Club
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By Overclock3D
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By Digit
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By xtremehardware.com
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Oggi vi presentiamo una VGA del produttore MSI molto particolare, ed interessante: il modello GTX 950 Gaming 2G. Questa categoria di schede grafiche coniuga buone prestazioni, ottima silenziosità un quantitativo di RAM idoneo per utilizzi 1080p, senza...
By FirstPost
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By Digit
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It's a conservatively priced, decent card, which may become the budget favourite over time. That said, you won't see the GTX 750 or the GTC 750 Ti losing their market any time soon, since they can run without external power.Msi geforce gtx 950 gaming 2g...
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