NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

A2 +87%

4.531 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

A2 +377%

902

GeForce GTX 960

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

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

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA107

GM206-300-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

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