MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 2G Review

January 26, 2015 | 10:37

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Unigine Valley 1.0 Benchmark

Publisher: Unigine

We've also updated our testing to include Unigine's free Valley 1.0 benchmarking tool. It works well as a graphics benchmark as it is GPU limited and is thus incredibly taxing on the GPU whilst placing the CPU under very little stress.

Until now, we've only run the full benchmark at 2,560 x 1,440. However, following feedback in our forums, we'll now be including Unigine Valley results at 1,920 x 1,080 too, using the same settings (fullscreen, AA off, Ultra detail). This means many more users can directly compare their results to ours, as 1080p is by far the more popular resolution. Unigine's scoring system is effectively linear: a card with 2,000 points is considered twice as fast as one with 1,000 points, and half as fast as one with 4,000 points. We'll be retesting and adding more cards to the 1080p chart in the near future.


Unigine Valley 1.0

1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, 'Ultra' Quality

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2G 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
    • 5528
    • 4890
    • 4497
    • 3919
    • 3914
    • 3003
    • 2918
    • 2667
    • 2468
    • 2444
    • 1647
    • 1647
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Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, 0x AA, 'Ultra' Quality

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2G 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 260X 2GB
    • 4313
    • 3047
    • 3000
    • 2947
    • 2717
    • 2487
    • 2378
    • 2210
    • 2135
    • 1785
    • 1760
    • 1735
    • 1657
    • 1510
    • 1487
    • 1284
    • 1263
    • 1148
    • 981
    • 967
    • 846
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Posted by Hustler - Mon Jan 26 2015 11:50

2GB & 128bit memory bus...sorry but in 2015 that's a sub £150 card in my book.

Posted by Dogbert666 - Mon Jan 26 2015 15:51

Hustler
2GB & 128bit memory bus...sorry but in 2015 that's a sub £150 card in my book.
Doesn't really seem to limit it though. I guess time will tell if that remains the case though.

Posted by jimbok11 - Fri Jan 30 2015 11:55

Looks nice at least...MSI know how to make their cards look pretty :p

Posted by mrbungle - Mon Feb 02 2015 14:30

100% meh
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