NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1695MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +137%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

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

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA107

GM206-250-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

Board Design

90W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

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