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Overclocking fared roughly the same for both graphics cards with 7900MHz effective memory for the GTX 950 and 8000MHz effective for the GTX 960, up from 7200MHz stock on both. Maximum boost clocks increased by 8.2% for the GTX 950 and 8.7% for the GTX 960.
These are par-for-the-course maximum overclocks for a GTX 950 and 960, suggesting to us there's been no speed-binning of chips here – not that it would be reasonable to expect that on such a budget-level GPU anyway. It is likely possible to go further with vBIOS or voltage mods, however, this would void your warranty and has a number of risks.
The aforementioned overclocks translated into an 8.3% boost in 3DMark performance for the PNY GTX 950 and a 9.1% boost for the GTX 960. In real terms there is very minimal overclocking headroom to be had, less than 10%, due to already high factory overclock
Eh, i don’t know if it’s worth buying, especially with 470 and 460 on the doorstep.
Could you include a 960 standard in the comparison for completeness ?
Seems off not to include the RX 480 in the result charts. Yes, the 960 is old, but it seems pointless to pretend newer cards aren’t competition.
This is something I’ll address in my next graphics card review, it will include the Rx 480, GTX 1070 and more. Thanks for the feedback. I disagree that it’s pointless though, the GTX 960 (£150~175) is a different price bracket to the Rx 480.
They should have RX 480 included!
Anyway. We want to compere the cards.
390 and 970 is they cheap?
200$ 960 vs 200$ 480? Even in the conclusion it should have been referenced that buyers should look that way or consider that the 1060 is coming out soon as well.
Awesome, the 1060 review should be interesting. Also is there potential to review the 4gb RX480 as that has a starting price of £175? Would be interesting to see how memory affects performance.
…Use google m8
Yep, working on that – a Rx 480 is now with me so will be testing in due course and try to get this review’s graphs updated before 1060.
In the UK (we are a UK site) Rx 480 is a £240+ card and not (yet) available in 4GB variants. However, yes I will revisit now I have an Rx 480 with me and update graphs/judgement accordingly.