NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +79%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Blender

A16 PCIe +165%

510

GeForce GTX 960

192

A16 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2015

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.94 billion

Unknown

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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