**Comparing the EVGA GTX 950 SSC and the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition**

In this article, we will be comparing two popular graphics cards from different manufacturers: the EVGA GTX 950 SSC and the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition. Both cards are designed to provide high-performance gaming experiences at an affordable price point.

The EVGA GTX 950 SSC is a well-known card that has been on the market for some time, while the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition is a newer release that is also gaining popularity among gamers. In terms of design, both cards have similar features, with the main difference being the size and weight of each card. The EVGA GTX 950 SSC is larger than the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition, but both cards have back plates and dual fans to help keep them cool.

One notable feature of the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition is its lighting system, which adds a touch of style to any gaming setup. However, aside from this cosmetic difference, both cards offer similar features, including eight-pin PCI Express power connectors and identical RAM speeds. The EVGA GTX 950 SSC also supports overclocking, allowing users to push the card's performance even further.

**Benchmarking the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition**

In our benchmarking tests, we found that the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition outperforms the EVGA GTX 950 SSC in nearly every category. Even at stock speeds, which were identical for both cards, the Gigabyte card was pulling ahead of the EVGA card by several frames per second. This suggests that there may be something unique about this particular card that gives it an edge over its competitor.

We are still unsure what is causing this performance difference, but we are eager to learn more about the technology behind this card. One possibility is that the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition has a different cooling system or power delivery design that allows it to run hotter and push more frames per second than the EVGA GTX 950 SSC.

**Dropping Plans for a Comparison with the Sapphire 380 Nitro**

Initially, we planned to compare the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition to the Sapphire 380 Nitro card, but this plan was quickly scrapped when we realized that comparing these two cards would not be fair. The Sapphire 380 Nitro is a 4 GB card that costs $219, while the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition is a 2 GB card that costs $179. This significant price difference and disparity in vRAM make it difficult to compare the two cards accurately.

Furthermore, we only had access to one Sapphire 380 Nitro card for testing purposes, which meant we could not redo the test with a different sample size or configuration. As a result, we decided to focus on comparing the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition to another low-end graphics card from EVGA, the GTX 950 SSC.

**Budget Shootout: A Potential Future Development**

One idea that has been floated around is doing a budget shootout featuring a range of low-end graphics cards, including the EVGA GTX 950 SSC, Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition, Sapphire 380 Nitro, and others. This would allow us to compare these cards in a more comprehensive and apples-to-apples way, helping readers determine which card offers the best value for their budget.

While this idea has potential, it would require significant time and resources to execute. Nevertheless, we believe that such a shootout could be a valuable resource for gamers looking for affordable options without sacrificing performance.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our comparison of the EVGA GTX 950 SSC and Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition revealed some interesting differences between these two graphics cards. While both offer similar features and performance characteristics, the Gigabyte card appears to have an edge over its competitor in terms of raw power. As we continue to explore the world of low-end graphics cards, it will be exciting to see how manufacturers differentiate their products with unique technologies and designs.

For gamers looking for a high-performance gaming experience without breaking the bank, the Gigabyte GTX 950 Extreme Edition is certainly worth considering. Its compact design and affordable price point make it an attractive option for those building small form factor systems or upgrading existing rigs.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know I'd be the first to admit that playing with high-end video cards is an awful lot of fun but I will also admit that it's not a lot of fun to sit there and constantly look at videos about products that you can't afford So today we're going to go ahead and talk about a new product from gigabyte which is the new GTX 950 TI extreme Edition it looks an awful lot like their gaming series Edition but we're going to go ahead and see whether or not this 950 deserves the actual title of extreme putting the words extreme and 950 together seems to be a little bit odd so let's go ahead and see if this guy even deserves the title the master case 5 and master case 5 Pro from Cooler Master combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description now you might notice immediately on the surface this thing looks an awful lot like its bigger Brother series the G1 gaming where it's got the same act alum accenting here it's got the windforce logo that actually lights up here it's got the silent light that turns on to tell you that your fans are running at low speed because you know as it's sitting like this in your case you typically can't see the fans I mean if it was s like that you could see it and you wouldn't need the light cuz you wouldn't even be able to see the lights but since it's sitting like this in most cases you always know what's going on with the card because the LED indicators here will tell you you've also got the stop light right here which turns on to tell you that your fans are not turning at all which is one of the benefits of these low power assumption cards is you can get away with Idol or 2D operation or even low demanding games with completely silent operation because the fans won't even turn on until they reach a temperature threshold which typically non-demanding games won't even reach with these low power consumption cards now the windforce logo does light up and it is adjustable using the OC Guru app from gigabyte where you can change the colors too between you know pretty standard colors you got blue red yellow uh White uh of course green and then you got purple and teal and a couple of other colors I think there's seven colors in total now for cooling again it uses the exact same fan blade design as the G1 gaming cards now there's only two of them because this is a very short PCB so it doesn't have three uh but it also has a large aluminum heat sink very lightweight though it's a very lightweight card uh running the length of the card actually running past the length of the card with a single heat pipe running in an S shape across the heat pipe giving you a lot more length to the heat pipe also giving you more heat dissipation you do have a small uh heat sink up here on the front for the vrm delivery it's not touching the main heat sink but in all of my testing so far it has not been running into any sort of cooling issues whatsoever on this card uh the vram is also being cooled by the heat sink so you have a lot of active cooling going on here for I/O it's The Usual Suspects you got your DVI an HDMI 2.0 and then you've got three uh display ports on here so for a small card like this this you can hook up a lot of displays if uh you want to have a lot going on kind of like I do behind me over here now the GTX 950 is the smallest brother of the current lineup of Maxwell based cards if we're not including the 750 and 750 Ti which are technically Maxwell based cards but we'll just say for the 900 series The 950 is the little brother it's the it's the Run running around the room annoying everybody you know saying I want to play I want to play and you're you know the big brothers are like go away go away leave me alone so the effect are pretty much according uh you know to the lineup so it's got 768 Cuda cores it's got a 1,24 MHz base clock 1168 MHz boost clock from the reference model obviously this card is pushing that much higher You've Got 2 GB of gddr5 running on 128bit bust for 6 gbit per second um bandwidth on there this card right now at $179 has an amazing B bang for buck at 1080P and we'll go ahead and show you why I say that right now transition sh all right so I was kind of curious as to what exactly would make this an extreme card and the only other thing I had to compare it to so far was the EVGA GTX 950 SSC now as you can see here if we compare these two cards uh the 950 from EVGA is much bigger however they both have back plates they both have dual fans they have the same uh io on the back or output on the back so they're very similar cards although the gigabyte does have the lighting on there uh but other than that they are pretty much identical in terms of the features that they offer they both take eight pin PCI Express power I mean they very they both overclocked to nearly identical uh frequencies same amount of ram same Ram speed even so it was one of those things where okay what makes this thing stream well you know I'll be honest if you saw the benchmarks right now uh this thing beat the 950 from EVGA in every single test even at stock speeds which were again nearly identical this thing was pulling out a couple of extra FPS in every single category so I'll be honest I don't know what it is that's making this card faster but it is faster than the EVGA card and you guys know I love me some EVGA so it's not like it's something that I would just throw out there uh but if you're looking for a small card it's lightweight it's got a back plate it's got light on it it's easy to fit in small form factor builds and it comes with a lot of extra bells and whistles and blings that you otherwise wouldn't get in a card that's under $200 then you definitely should put the gigabyte GTX 950 extreme Edition on your short list now I had originally planned to instead of comparing the two 950s taking this 950 from gigabyte and putting it against the sapphire 380 Nitro card that I reviewed a few months back uh but it became pretty quick uh quickly became apparent that that was going to be a bad idea and the reason why I say that is the only 380 that I had the opportunity to Benchmark one was a laner card so I could not go back and redo the test now to see uh you know just for the sake of continuity if my results were the same the second time around two the card was a 4 GB card which made it more expensive than this card so we'd be comparing two cards that are not in the same category of price where the Nitro came in at $219 and this thing comes in at $179 so in order to do that test and make it properly Apples to Apples in terms of being price point comparison I would have needed a 2 GB card and I don't have that so it really wasn't going to be very fair in doing that test because the price points were different and the amount of vram was different which became apparent in all the tests the 380 Nitro card was beating this card in every category hands down by quite a bit of FPS so I don't know how much of that was attributed to the ram especially at 1080P and games like Crisis 3 and Witcher which do like the vram I just went ahead and threw that test out the window and maybe I'll try and see if Sapphire will loan me a 382 GB card maybe the solution here is I just take all the low-range cards that I have you know 960s and 950s and 380s and 370s and and we just kind of do like a budget shootout on all the graphics cards that'd be kind of fun it would take a while to do all that benchmarking but it' probably be worth doing but anyway guys thanks for watching today's video gigabyte 95050 extreme card I think we're going to be seeing more cards using the extreme nomen clature I think they're planning on bringing that out to more cards hopefully we'll learn more about that here in the future I'm curious as to what's going to make if they do the extreme cards on the higher end models like the 970 980 980 TI then what's going to make it different than the G1 gaming so I don't know if we're going to see that I guess time will tell anyways I'm going to get on out of here thanks for watching guys I hope this video has helped you in some way uh as you can see you don't need to blow all of your money on a highend graphics card to get a good gaming experience in games you can like Battlefield 4 for instance as you saw we were getting over 70 FPS once you overclock the thing 60 is no problem without overclocking it so that means games like Battlefront will have no problems running on a 950 and of course you can always SLI that later if that was your only option but anyway it's time to go guys thanks for watching and I will see you in the next videoyou know I'd be the first to admit that playing with high-end video cards is an awful lot of fun but I will also admit that it's not a lot of fun to sit there and constantly look at videos about products that you can't afford So today we're going to go ahead and talk about a new product from gigabyte which is the new GTX 950 TI extreme Edition it looks an awful lot like their gaming series Edition but we're going to go ahead and see whether or not this 950 deserves the actual title of extreme putting the words extreme and 950 together seems to be a little bit odd so let's go ahead and see if this guy even deserves the title the master case 5 and master case 5 Pro from Cooler Master combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description now you might notice immediately on the surface this thing looks an awful lot like its bigger Brother series the G1 gaming where it's got the same act alum accenting here it's got the windforce logo that actually lights up here it's got the silent light that turns on to tell you that your fans are running at low speed because you know as it's sitting like this in your case you typically can't see the fans I mean if it was s like that you could see it and you wouldn't need the light cuz you wouldn't even be able to see the lights but since it's sitting like this in most cases you always know what's going on with the card because the LED indicators here will tell you you've also got the stop light right here which turns on to tell you that your fans are not turning at all which is one of the benefits of these low power assumption cards is you can get away with Idol or 2D operation or even low demanding games with completely silent operation because the fans won't even turn on until they reach a temperature threshold which typically non-demanding games won't even reach with these low power consumption cards now the windforce logo does light up and it is adjustable using the OC Guru app from gigabyte where you can change the colors too between you know pretty standard colors you got blue red yellow uh White uh of course green and then you got purple and teal and a couple of other colors I think there's seven colors in total now for cooling again it uses the exact same fan blade design as the G1 gaming cards now there's only two of them because this is a very short PCB so it doesn't have three uh but it also has a large aluminum heat sink very lightweight though it's a very lightweight card uh running the length of the card actually running past the length of the card with a single heat pipe running in an S shape across the heat pipe giving you a lot more length to the heat pipe also giving you more heat dissipation you do have a small uh heat sink up here on the front for the vrm delivery it's not touching the main heat sink but in all of my testing so far it has not been running into any sort of cooling issues whatsoever on this card uh the vram is also being cooled by the heat sink so you have a lot of active cooling going on here for I/O it's The Usual Suspects you got your DVI an HDMI 2.0 and then you've got three uh display ports on here so for a small card like this this you can hook up a lot of displays if uh you want to have a lot going on kind of like I do behind me over here now the GTX 950 is the smallest brother of the current lineup of Maxwell based cards if we're not including the 750 and 750 Ti which are technically Maxwell based cards but we'll just say for the 900 series The 950 is the little brother it's the it's the Run running around the room annoying everybody you know saying I want to play I want to play and you're you know the big brothers are like go away go away leave me alone so the effect are pretty much according uh you know to the lineup so it's got 768 Cuda cores it's got a 1,24 MHz base clock 1168 MHz boost clock from the reference model obviously this card is pushing that much higher You've Got 2 GB of gddr5 running on 128bit bust for 6 gbit per second um bandwidth on there this card right now at $179 has an amazing B bang for buck at 1080P and we'll go ahead and show you why I say that right now transition sh all right so I was kind of curious as to what exactly would make this an extreme card and the only other thing I had to compare it to so far was the EVGA GTX 950 SSC now as you can see here if we compare these two cards uh the 950 from EVGA is much bigger however they both have back plates they both have dual fans they have the same uh io on the back or output on the back so they're very similar cards although the gigabyte does have the lighting on there uh but other than that they are pretty much identical in terms of the features that they offer they both take eight pin PCI Express power I mean they very they both overclocked to nearly identical uh frequencies same amount of ram same Ram speed even so it was one of those things where okay what makes this thing stream well you know I'll be honest if you saw the benchmarks right now uh this thing beat the 950 from EVGA in every single test even at stock speeds which were again nearly identical this thing was pulling out a couple of extra FPS in every single category so I'll be honest I don't know what it is that's making this card faster but it is faster than the EVGA card and you guys know I love me some EVGA so it's not like it's something that I would just throw out there uh but if you're looking for a small card it's lightweight it's got a back plate it's got light on it it's easy to fit in small form factor builds and it comes with a lot of extra bells and whistles and blings that you otherwise wouldn't get in a card that's under $200 then you definitely should put the gigabyte GTX 950 extreme Edition on your short list now I had originally planned to instead of comparing the two 950s taking this 950 from gigabyte and putting it against the sapphire 380 Nitro card that I reviewed a few months back uh but it became pretty quick uh quickly became apparent that that was going to be a bad idea and the reason why I say that is the only 380 that I had the opportunity to Benchmark one was a laner card so I could not go back and redo the test now to see uh you know just for the sake of continuity if my results were the same the second time around two the card was a 4 GB card which made it more expensive than this card so we'd be comparing two cards that are not in the same category of price where the Nitro came in at $219 and this thing comes in at $179 so in order to do that test and make it properly Apples to Apples in terms of being price point comparison I would have needed a 2 GB card and I don't have that so it really wasn't going to be very fair in doing that test because the price points were different and the amount of vram was different which became apparent in all the tests the 380 Nitro card was beating this card in every category hands down by quite a bit of FPS so I don't know how much of that was attributed to the ram especially at 1080P and games like Crisis 3 and Witcher which do like the vram I just went ahead and threw that test out the window and maybe I'll try and see if Sapphire will loan me a 382 GB card maybe the solution here is I just take all the low-range cards that I have you know 960s and 950s and 380s and 370s and and we just kind of do like a budget shootout on all the graphics cards that'd be kind of fun it would take a while to do all that benchmarking but it' probably be worth doing but anyway guys thanks for watching today's video gigabyte 95050 extreme card I think we're going to be seeing more cards using the extreme nomen clature I think they're planning on bringing that out to more cards hopefully we'll learn more about that here in the future I'm curious as to what's going to make if they do the extreme cards on the higher end models like the 970 980 980 TI then what's going to make it different than the G1 gaming so I don't know if we're going to see that I guess time will tell anyways I'm going to get on out of here thanks for watching guys I hope this video has helped you in some way uh as you can see you don't need to blow all of your money on a highend graphics card to get a good gaming experience in games you can like Battlefield 4 for instance as you saw we were getting over 70 FPS once you overclock the thing 60 is no problem without overclocking it so that means games like Battlefront will have no problems running on a 950 and of course you can always SLI that later if that was your only option but anyway it's time to go guys thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video\n"