NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Aug 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
1725 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
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Shading Units
5888
768
TMUs
184
48
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
184
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RT Cores
46
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
165.6 GPixel/s
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
317.4 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
20.31 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
20.31 TFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
317.4 GFLOPS
57.02 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GM206
GPU Variant
GA104-300-A1
GM206-250-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
220W
90W
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
13,641
1,903
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
6,762
396
3DMark Speed Way
3,453
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Battlefield 5 1080p
188
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
53
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
46
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
95
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Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
56
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
144
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Battlefield 5 2160p
81
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Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
82
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Battlefield 5 1440p
141
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GTA 5 2160p
68
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GTA 5 1440p
105
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GTA 5 1080p
159
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.