GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1725MHz vs 1188MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+1012%
20310
GeForce GTX 950
1825
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3070
+616%
13641
GeForce GTX 950
1903
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3070
+1607%
6762
GeForce GTX 950
396
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
+960%
53
GeForce GTX 950
5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
+375%
95
GeForce GTX 950
20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
+380%
144
GeForce GTX 950
30
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1024 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
768
184
TMUs
48
96
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
90W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GM206
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
392 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
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
