NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +787%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1869

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +554%

12239

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 950

5

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +900%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 950

20

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +350%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +360%

138

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 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

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

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

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA104

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

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

Board Design

90W

TDP

225W

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 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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