NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1695MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +1343%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

1024

328

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

32

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM206S

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

950 OEM

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

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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