NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2130MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +397%

12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2015

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2130 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

88

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

88

Tensor Cores

-

22

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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