NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, 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 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

575 points

7964 points

1285% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

186 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

95 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

133 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

75 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points

3279.67 points

3145% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9777 points

138398 points

1315% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points

125425 points

1133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points

91922 points

913% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

113801 points

1058% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points

103840 points

1076% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

1110 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1124 MHz

1545 MHz

37% 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

28.8 GB/s

448 GB/s

1455% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

53% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.98 Gigapixels/s

148.3 Gigapixels/s

724% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s

296.6 Gigatexels/s

559% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

6144

859% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

380% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

319th of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2021 January

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 3080 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 Laptop 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at 115 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 950M.