RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce GTX 960A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1695MHz vs 1085MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
3968 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+1024%
15620
GeForce GTX 960A
1389
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Mar 2015
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 900A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
1029 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
1085 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
36
SM Count
-
4608
Shading Units
640
144
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
144
Tensor Cores
-
36
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
81.36 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.36 GPixel/s
244.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.40 GTexel/s
15.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.62 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1389 GFLOPS
244.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
43.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
75W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
AD106
GPU Name
GM107
-
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
22.9 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
188 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
5.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
