NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 255.00

$ 229.99

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

3468 points

234% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

22 FPS

82 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

41 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

59 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

31 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

6224 points

227% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

1484.67 points

1107% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

72998 points

356% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

71667 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

56109 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

63483 points

273% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

62406 points

276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1552 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1777 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

224 GB/s

111% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

44% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

149% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

398% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

2560

233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GTX 950.