NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900A
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1552 MHz
993 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1124 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1001 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
DDR3
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
32.03GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
640
TMUs
80
40
ROPs
32
16
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
17.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA106
GM107
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
N16P-GT
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
148 mm²

Board Design

TDP
130W
75W
Suggested PSU
300 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.6
5.1