GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs RTX 3060 Ti

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking49not rated
Place by popularity23not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation69.08no data
Power efficiency18.19no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGA104GM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 December 2020 (4 years ago)1 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 $159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4864768
Core clock speed1410 MHz1026 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHz1190 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate253.157.12
Floating-point processing power16.2 TFLOPS1.828 TFLOPS
ROPs8032
TMUs15248
Tensor Cores152no data
Ray Tracing Cores38no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length242 mm202 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1653 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s105.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.21.1.126
CUDA8.65.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2020 1 March 2016
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3060 Ti has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 950 Low Power, on the other hand, has 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and GeForce GTX 950 Low Power. We've got no test results to judge.


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