NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 1294.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

13991 points

1247% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

333 FPS

311 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

169 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

241 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

134 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

19931 points

948% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

5820.93 points

4632% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

238123 points

1388% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

204921 points

1023% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

138859 points

656% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

194465 points

1043% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

179816 points

984% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1400 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1695 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

24 GiB

1100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

784% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

288% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

399% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

875% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

1849% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

10496

1266% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

583% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

25th 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

GDDR6X

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 3090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly 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 3090 also has a slightly 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 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950.