NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2022
Jan 2015
Generation
Ampere-MW
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
832 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
128bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
—
RT Cores
16
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107S
GM206
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
228 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM206-300-A1
Board Design
TDP
30W
120W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.