NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points
5934 points
471% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS
150 FPS
128 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS
75 FPS
59 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS
103 FPS
88 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS
57 FPS
44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points
3004.43 points
2342% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points
122041 points
662% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points
111833 points
513% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points
84673 points
361% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points
102733 points
504% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points
96388 points
481% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz
1110 MHz
8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz
1560 MHz
31% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
27% slightly lower TDP
115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s
124.8 Gigapixels/s
228% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s
249.6 Gigatexels/s
337% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS
15.97 TFLOPS
775% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
5120
566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
160
233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
80
150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586
83rd 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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 950.

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