NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2520MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +2099%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

1024

336

TMUs

64

128

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

GM206S

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

950 OEM

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.94 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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