GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1188 MHz

TDP 90 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A5000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 230 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

7,172

N/A

geekbench_opencl

16,740

155,247

geekbench_vulkan

16,734

137,199

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,783

passmark_directx_10

N/A

153

passmark_directx_11

N/A

187

passmark_directx_12

N/A

87

passmark_directx_9

N/A

251

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,032

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,541

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

12,455

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 950

RTX A5000

Core Specs

Shading Units

768

8,192 +966.7%

Shaders

768

8,192 +966.7%

TMUs

48

256 +433.3%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

SM Count

—

64

Clocks

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1170 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

24,576 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

162.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.825 TFLOPS

27.77 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)

433.9 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

64

Tensor Cores

—

256

Power

TDP

90 W

230 W

TDP (W)

90

230 +155.6%

Suggested PSU

250 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM206

GA102

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

28,300 million

Die Size

228 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.9M / mm²

45.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

202 mm 8 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

159 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ada

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