GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

L40

CORE STATE AD102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2490 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

330,683

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

232,627

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

L40

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

18,176 +1675.0%

Shaders

1,024

18,176 +1675.0%

TMUs

64

568 +787.5%

ROPs

32

192 +500.0%

SM Count

—

142

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

735 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2490 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

49,152 +2300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

864.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

478.1 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

1,414.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

1,414.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

90.52 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

142

Tensor Cores

—

568

Power

TDP

120 W

300 W

TDP (W)

120

300 +150.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM206

AD102

Generation

GeForce 900

Server Ada (Lxx)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

76,300 million

Die Size

228 mm²

609 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

125.3M / 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

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 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

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Server Ampere

Successor

GeForce 10

Server Hopper

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