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 A6000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1800 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

180,149

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

165,451

passmark_directx_10

N/A

155

passmark_directx_11

N/A

191

passmark_directx_12

N/A

87

passmark_directx_9

N/A

245

passmark_g2d

N/A

913

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,577

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,110

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX A6000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

10,752 +950.0%

Shaders

1,024

10,752 +950.0%

TMUs

64

336 +425.0%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 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

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

201.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

604.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

38.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

120 W

300 W

TDP (W)

120

300 +150.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

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

241 mm 9.5 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

199 USD

4,649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ada

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