NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 D 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 575W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 102% (2407MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
20992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090 D
+5633%
104.8 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
2017 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
170
768
Shading Units
21760
48
TMUs
680
32
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
680
-
RT Cores
170
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
575W
250 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GB202
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
10.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
