NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1740MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +289%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +693%

1841

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

232

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +311%

181

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

44

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 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

-

Compute Units

-

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

38.08 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-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

Board Design

90W

TDP

75W

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

None

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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