NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1665MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1768%

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +957%

19771

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1740%

92

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +665%

153

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +563%

199

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

May 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

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10240

Shading Units

768

320

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM206

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

90W

750 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 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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