NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

4534 points

336% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

112 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

57 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

78 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

44 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

2352.59 points

1812% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

98709 points

517% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

92420 points

406% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

71210 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

84300 points

395% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

82804 points

399% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1703 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

5.97 GiB

198% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

336 GB/s

217% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

80 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

79% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

199% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

499% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

3840

400% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2021 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 3060 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 950.