NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1710MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +1528%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

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

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

768

272

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

75W

700 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

GA102

GPU Name

GM206

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-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

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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