GeForce GTX 960 vs A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
A2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2413
A2
+87%
4531
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
189
A2
+377%
902
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
1024
Shading Units
1280
64
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA107
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
Unknown
228 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
