NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +596%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

28

768

Shading Units

3584

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA104

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

392 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

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