NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 111% (2505MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +2570%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +1418%

28272

GeForce GTX 950

1862

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +2540%

132

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +1130%

246

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +900%

300

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

-

9728

Shading Units

768

304

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

90W

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GM206

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

379 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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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