NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 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 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1777MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +596%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1296%

2499

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

179

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +540%

282

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

44

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 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

1026 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 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 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM206

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

276 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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