GeForce GTX 950 LP vs GT 630

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking922not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.08no data
Power efficiency1.88no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGF108GM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 May 2012 (12 years ago)1 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99.99 $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 cores96768
Core clock speed810 MHz1024 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1188 MHz
Number of transistors585 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate12.9657.02
Floating-point processing power0.311 TFLOPSno data
ROPs432
TMUs1648

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mm202 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s105.8 GB/s

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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x 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 (11_0)12.0
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.15.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2012 1 March 2016
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 75 Watt

GT 630 has 15.4% lower power consumption.

GTX 950 LP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 630 and GeForce GTX 950 LP. We've got no test results to judge.


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