GeForce GTX 950 LP and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 LP
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2016
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.02
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2