NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 1244.95 significantly less expensive

$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

16207 points

1461% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

382 FPS

360 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

188 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

275 FPS

260 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

151 FPS

138 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

21929 points

1054% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

6069.41 points

4834% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

260346 points

1527% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

229738 points

1160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

141134 points

669% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

207329 points

1119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

187369 points

1030% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1560 MHz

52% significantly 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

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

1008 GB/s

852% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

400% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

447% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

996% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

2091% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

10752

1300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

599% 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

16th 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

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 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 950.