NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

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

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

15360 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +3251%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1024

512

TMUs

64

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM206S

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

950 OEM

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

Unknown

850 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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