NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 2016
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1026 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
—
Shading Units
2304
768
TMUs
72
48
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
72
—
RT Cores
18
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GM206
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GM206-251-A1
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
75W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.