NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1665MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +787%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Feb 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

768

Shading Units

4864

48

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA103S

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI FirePro V8750

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI FirePro V9800

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA NVS 300

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon Pro V7350X2

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early