NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2021
Nov 2015
Generation
Quadro Ampere
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1170 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
112.2GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
64
-
Shading Units
8192
1024
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA102
GM206
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
228 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GTX 960 OEM

Board Design

TDP
230W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
550 W
200 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None

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
6.7