NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 90W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1740MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+289%
7.127 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
179
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+753%
1528
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
44
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+297%
175
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
1545 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
768
Shading Units
2048
48
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
55.68 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
111.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.127 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.127 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
111.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
90W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA107
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
GA107-140-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
