NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2016
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
937 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1203 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
80.19GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
—
Shading Units
2560
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
80
—
RT Cores
20
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
38.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
76.99 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
2.464 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
76.99 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GM206S
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
950 OEM
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
300 W
200 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.