NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1777MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +596%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM206

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 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

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

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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