GeForce GTX 960 vs RTX 4500 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 210W)
RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2580MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2413
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+1542%
39630
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960
2300
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+759%
19774
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960
1025
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+835%
9588
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
189
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+2844%
5565
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
2070 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2580 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
60
1024
Shading Units
7680
64
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
240
-
RT Cores
60
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.4 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
619.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
39.63 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.63 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
619.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
210W
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
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
AD103
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
45.9 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
379 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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
