NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1545MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +1038%

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 900A

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

5120

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

AD104

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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