NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1740MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +290%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +500%

30

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +200%

60

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +183%

85

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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