NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 255.00
$ 304.30 significantly less expensive
$ 559.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points
8113 points
681% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS
197 FPS
175 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS
96 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS
140 FPS
125 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS
77 FPS
64 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points
13651 points
618% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points
3380.77 points
2648% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points
149734 points
835% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points
135064 points
640% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points
99979 points
444% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points
128209 points
654% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points
121057 points
630% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz
1500 MHz
46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz
1725 MHz
45% 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
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s
448 GB/s
323% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W
144% significantly lower TDP
220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s
165.6 Gigapixels/s
335% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s
317.4 Gigatexels/s
456% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
1012% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
5888
666% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
184
283% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
96
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586
53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 3070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the GeForce GTX 950.

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