NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1768%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1862

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +963%

19794

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 950

5

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1740%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 950

20

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +665%

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +563%

199

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

80

768

Shading Units

10240

48

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

628 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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