NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1725MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +1011%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

768

184

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

75W

550 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

GA104

GPU Name

GM206

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-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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