NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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

Released 6 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +417%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

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

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

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

38.50 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

GA106

GPU Name

GM206S

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

950 OEM

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

6.7

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