NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 120% (2610MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +2096%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

768

240

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM206

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

285W

TDP

90W

600 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 16-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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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