NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1207MHz vs 1150MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 Max Q
+162%
6.18 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 965M
2.355 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jan 2016
Ampere-MW
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
682 MHz
Base Clock
935 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
1150 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
1024
80
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
32
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.80 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
73.60 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.355 TFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GM206S
-
GPU Variant
N16E-GR-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
