NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2015
Mar 2023
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Ada-M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1176 MHz
1110 MHz
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
1545 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
432.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
5120
TMUs
64
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
48 MB
SM Count
-
40
Tensor Cores
-
160
RT Cores
-
40
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
98.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
247.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
15.82 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
247.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
AD104
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
-
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
35.8 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
100W
Suggested PSU
200 W
-
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.9
Shader Model
6.7
6.7