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

RTX 4500 Ada Generation

CORE STATE AD103

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2580 MHz

TDP 210 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

194,668

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

171,401

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

7,680 +650.0%

Shaders

1,024

7,680 +650.0%

TMUs

64

240 +275.0%

ROPs

32

80 +150.0%

SM Count

—

60

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2070 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2580 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 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

192 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

432.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

206.4 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

619.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

39.63 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

619.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

39.63 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

60

Tensor Cores

—

240

Power

TDP

120 W

210 W

TDP (W)

120

210 +75.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM206

AD103

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ada (x000A)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

45,900 million

Die Size

228 mm²

379 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

121.1M / 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

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

245 mm 9.6 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

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Workstation Ampere

Successor

GeForce 10

Blackwell PRO W

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