GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM107

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2015

January 2022

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Boost clock speed

1124 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

993 MHz

1552 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,271 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

44.96

102.0

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2