NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +417%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM206S

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

950 OEM

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

392 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

6.7

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