NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1440MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +327%

10.32 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

A30 PCIe +977%

2036

GeForce GTX 960

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA100

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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