NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 48GB VRAM A40 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 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1740MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +1450%

37.42 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

A40 PCIe +2106%

4170

GeForce GTX 960

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

1024

Shading Units

10752

64

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA102

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

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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