960 Pro vs 950 Pro for gaming?

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As we already know two M.2 monsters coming our way in October.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-960-evo-960-pro-nvme-ssds,32732.html
Im building a new system (6700k, gtx 1080) and not sure should i get 950 pro now, or wait 1 mounth and get 960 pro for the same money per gb, but with better performance.
How much faster 960 pro would perform visually? I dont really care about split second numbers, but if in real life its gonna be 30% faster as on a paper now, than its worth waiting for me.
 
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Well i mean how fast games loading from desktop, duration of loading screens. How wast windows boots and other programs loading is important for me too.
 
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We are talking about fractions of a second in performance difference between the two you'll never notice the difference. So it comes down basically to bragging rights. If you want the bragging rights of owning the newest High performance model wait and get the 960 Pro. If you don't need to brag and don't want to wait to start enjoying the new build get the 950 Pro. Of course right now the 960 Pro is the same price on paper as the 950 Pro, but when it launches depending on the supply the price could be higher.

 
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Minimal difference. Where these drives excel is in large file transfers and stuff. You would notice a very minimal loading time difference.
 
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That is likely not being blocked by I/O. When you initially open the game, it's I/O bound, then after that, it gets loaded into your RAM and your processor needs to do the opening.

Hope this helps!
 
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I'm curious aswell but as all these fine gentlemen said.... The Performance boost will be mediocre and unless your plan is to sit on the top of user benchmark and laugh at the filthy 950 pro pesants. The 950 is the way to go
 
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I have the Z97-A motherboard and i5-4690k, I just purchased the 960 evo 500Gb + I'll get a free copy of WD2 :D I'll post a video during the boot and during game load times and preformance!
 
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I have the 950 pro in an Asus X99 E-ws. I tried it as a boot drive, and that was a waste - don't get me wrong, it is very fast for random IO compared to most anything else, but maybe a 10-15% speed up in boot, when I only reboot once a month or so, to me is silly. I'm pretty sure for that, in a blind comparison for game loading and whatnot, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a reasonably nice SATA SSD.

I use it for a database and some caches, and sometimes when working with huge files. Love it for those uses.
 
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Ewitte

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I definitely notice a difference vs the 256GB model (4K QD1 is worse than normal SATA drives on the 256GB 950 Pro). Not in gaming but I hit my system hard enough to come up short on ram even with 32GB. If the price didn't go up 40% I'd go to 64GB :(

BTW I have a continually running VM, LightRoom, Photoshop, and tons of chrome/ie tabs running. Also not my only SSD I have a 850 pro for secondary, MX300 1TB 3rd level then some 7200RPM drives.
 
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