NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1770MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
A2
+84%
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
4GB
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
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA107
GTX 960 OEM
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
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
