NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1710MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +451%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +486%

10960

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +820%

46

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +325%

85

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +323%

127

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1710 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

-

Compute Units

-

2944

Shading Units

768

184

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GM206

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

90W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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