NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +1050%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

1024

Shading Units

8192

64

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

230W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

6.7

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