NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Jan 2015
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
720 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
—
Shading Units
6144
1024
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
192
—
RT Cores
48
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
129.6 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
259.2 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
16.59 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
16.59 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
259.2 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GM206
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
228 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM206-300-A1
Board Design
TDP
80W
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
6.7
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.