GeForce GTX 950M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 950M is Maxwell's budget tier from 2015 — the GPU that let mid-decade all-rounders call themselves gaming-capable. The catalog holds a single machine with it, Lenovo's ThinkPad E570, and carries benchmarks in 106 games at 1080p. This page is mostly a benchmark reference: what a decade-old entry GPU does today, for the one listing that still carries it.

Where the GTX 950M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 20.1 places the chip 207th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — the lower third of the table. The neighbors bracket the entry tier from both directions: Apple's M1 Pro (20.3) and M4 GPU740 (20.3) above, the Quadro P520 (20.1) at the same score, and the Quadro M2000M (19.9), Quadro T2000 Laptop (19.3) and Radeon Vega 11 Compute Engine (19.3) below. Like its 960M sibling, the 950M has been fully absorbed into the integrated-graphics pack — the entry dedicated tier of 2015 is the entry integrated tier of 2026.

What the chip brings

The spec sheet dates it precisely: 640 shader cores on a 28 nm Maxwell die, 4 GB of memory in DDR3 or GDDR5 variants, about 1.4 TFLOPS and a 75 W thermal design. No ray tracing, no DLSS, no upscaler of any kind — CUDA support is the only modern-relevant feature, and modestly at that. Public benchmarks sit around 2,600 PassMark points, a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 970 and Fire Strike near 3,200: a little below the 960M, a little above pure integrated solutions of its own era.

FPS in games at 1080p

The 2010s competitive catalog still runs: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS on the high preset, GTA V and PUBG at 140, FIFA 18 at 93, League of Legends at 76, Dota 2 at 73, Valorant at 70 and Fortnite at 65. The AAA boundary is immediate: Battlefield V manages 31, Doom 29, Forza Horizon 4 27 and Far Cry 23 on high records, with the Witcher 3 at 19, Cyberpunk 2077 at 12, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 10 and Metro Exodus at 5 beyond reasonable play. Counter-Strike 2 posts 30 — the current-generation line drawn clearly.

Laptops that carry it

One catalog machine carries the chip: the ThinkPad E570, a 2016 15-inch business laptop asking $228 — the least expensive dedicated-GPU machine on the site. Its numbers are business-honest rather than gaming: a gaming index of 18, zero games clearing recommended settings, a best-CPU score of 20.6 and energy efficiency at 51.9. The E570 was never a gaming machine; the 950M was the checkbox option that made it versatile.

Bottom line

The GTX 950M page exists for reference, and the reference is clear: a decade-old entry GPU that still runs the esports staples of its era and nothing modern at playable settings. At $228 the E570 is a legitimate ultra-budget laptop purchase — ThinkPad build quality for the price of a keyboard — but it should be bought as an office machine with a bonus, not as any kind of gaming option. For gaming at the same money, nothing in the catalog qualifies; the honest floor for that sits one tier up, with GTX 1050-class machines in the $399–$650 band.