NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1026 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
70
—
Shading Units
8960
768
TMUs
280
48
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
280
—
RT Cores
70
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GM206
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
GM206-251-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
75W
Suggested PSU
750 W
250 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-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
6.8
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.