NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

575 points

2624 points

356% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

64 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

32 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

45 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

25 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points

1161.74 points

1049% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9777 points

58544 points

498% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points

55123 points

442% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points

47251 points

421% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

51045 points

419% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points

53105 points

501% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

1238 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

192 GB/s

566% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.98 Gigapixels/s

33.82 Gigapixels/s

88% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s

67.65 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2048

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

319th of 597

173rd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 950M and the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 950M.