GeForce GTX 950 and GeForce RTX 3090 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 3090
GeForce GTX 950
5498
GeForce RTX 3090
27597
GeForce GTX 950
GeForce RTX 3090
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
September 2020
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1700 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
1400 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
10496
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
556.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
19500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
936.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.5
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-