NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1777MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +397%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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

1552 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA106

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

12 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

6.6

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