NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1695MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
9728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3090
+1846%
35.58 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Sep 2020
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
1395 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
82
768
Shading Units
10496
48
TMUs
328
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
350W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 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
GA102
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
628 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
6.6
