Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2016 Oct 2022
Generation GeForce 900 GeForce 30
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1026 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 1190 MHz 1777 MHz
Memory Clock 1653 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 128bit 128bit
Bandwidth 105.8GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 768 3584
TMUs 48 112
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 3 MB
SM Count 28
Tensor Cores 112
RT Cores 28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.08 GPixel/s 113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 57.12 GTexel/s 199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.828 TFLOPS 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 57.12 GFLOPS 199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM206 GA104
GPU Variant GM206-251-A1 GA104
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 2.94 billion 17.4 billion
Die Size 228 mm² 392 mm²
Board Design
TDP 75W 195W
Suggested PSU 250 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 5.2 8.6
Shader Model 6.4 6.7