NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 140W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+1529%
4.531 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
May 2009
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
12
1280
Shading Units
96
40
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
140W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G92
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.754 billion
Unknown
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
