GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1188 MHz

TDP 90 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3070

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1725 MHz

TDP 220 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

7,172

N/A

geekbench_opencl

16,740

123,479

geekbench_vulkan

16,734

120,664

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,162

passmark_directx_10

N/A

150

passmark_directx_11

N/A

182

passmark_directx_12

N/A

85

passmark_directx_9

N/A

247

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,001

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,214

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

11,195

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 950

RTX 3070

Core Specs

Shading Units

768

5,888 +666.7%

Shaders

768

5,888 +666.7%

TMUs

48

184 +283.3%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1725 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

165.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.825 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)

317.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

20.31 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

184

Power

TDP

90 W

220 W

TDP (W)

90

220 +144.4%

Suggested PSU

250 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM206

GA104

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

17,400 million

Die Size

228 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.9M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

202 mm 8 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

159 USD

499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 40

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