NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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NVIDIA A30 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe 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 A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1440MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +318%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

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GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2016

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

224

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GM206S

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GPU Variant

950 OEM

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

5.2

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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