NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1024 MHz
  • Around 46% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1188 MHz
  • 2546.7x more texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 49.2 billion / sec
  • 3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 768
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 291.7x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 6.6 GB/s
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 641
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 5340
  • 3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49885 vs 16728
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 20 August 2015
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1024 MHz
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1188 MHz
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s vs 49.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 2304 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 6.6 GB/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 vs 641
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873 vs 5340
Geekbench - OpenCL 49885 vs 16728

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
942
641
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12873
5340
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
49885
16728
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 641
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873 5340
Geekbench - OpenCL 49885 16728
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 60.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 758.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 29.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 231.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 105

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Maxwell 2.0
Code name GA107 GM206
Launch date 2022 20 August 2015
Place in performance rating 88 547
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $159
Price now $194.44
Value for money (0-100) 30.06

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1188 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1024 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 768
Pixel fill rate 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s 49.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 90 Watt
CUDA cores 768
Floating-point performance 1,825 gflops
Transistor count 2,940 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Audio input for HDMI Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 7.938" (20.2 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pins
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2x

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 105.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 6.6 GB/s
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround