NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1777MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +598%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +383%

9002

GeForce GTX 950

1862

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/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

38.02 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM206

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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