GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 108% (2475MHz vs 1188MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 950 Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070
+1497%
29150
GeForce GTX 950
1825
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4070
+839%
17887
GeForce GTX 950
1903
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4070
+1896%
7907
GeForce GTX 950
396
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
+1540%
82
GeForce GTX 950
5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
+700%
160
GeForce GTX 950
20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+753%
256
GeForce GTX 950
30
Graphics Card
Apr 2023
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1024 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
768
184
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
90W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GM206
AD104-250-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
295 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
8.9
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
