GeForce GTX 950 LP and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 950 LP

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM206

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2016

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1188 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1024 MHz

1552 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,825 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

57.02

102.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit Bit

Memory clock speed

6612 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2