NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 16GB VRAM A2 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 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1770MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
A2
+147%
4.531 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
179
A2
+403%
902
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
768
Shading Units
1280
48
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA107
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
Unknown
228 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
