NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1770MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +83%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2016

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/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

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206S

-

GPU Variant

950 OEM

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

60W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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