NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1777MHz vs 1188MHz)

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

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +398%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1188 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

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA107

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

90W

TDP

115W

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

1x 6-pin

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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