3DMark is an essential tool used by millions of gamers, hundreds of hardware review sites and many of the world’s leading manufacturers to measure PC gaming performance.
Futuremark say “Use it to test your PC’s limits and measure the impact of overclocking and tweaking your system. Search our massive results database and see how your PC compares or just admire the graphics and wonder why all PC games don’t look this good.
To get more out of your PC, put 3DMark in your PC.”
Unfortunately we could not run the 3DMark tests using our overclocked Radeon 7850 graphics card as doing so forced the clock speed to revert to their reference levels. This seems to be a bug that was isolated to 3DMark, as all other games and benchmarks run at the fully overclocked speeds.
3DMark positions Asus' factory-overclocked GTX 950 exactly where Nvidia intended the GPU to lie. The card's Graphics score of almost 6700 points is just a little closer to overclocked GTX 960 performance than it is to factory-overclocked GTX 750 Ti numbers.
Looking at the out-of-the-box numbers for Palit's GTX 950 card, it is clear how much effect a core overclock and higher boost frequency have on the performance of Maxwell chips. Applying a heavy overclock to Asus STRIX GTX 950 takes it to within 10% of the performance of a factory-overclocked GTX 960.