NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1725MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +1012%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1862

GeForce RTX 3070 +634%

13673

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 950

5

GeForce RTX 3070 +960%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 950

20

GeForce RTX 3070 +375%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 3070 +380%

144

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 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

46

768

Shading Units

5888

48

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

220W

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

GA104

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-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

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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