NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 1188 MHz
1999.4x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 49.2 billion / sec
2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
250x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 6.6 GB/s
2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 41257 vs 16110

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 20 August 2015
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 1188 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 49.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 6.6 GB/s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	41257 vs 16110

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 832 MHz

Core clock speed	1024 MHz vs 832 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41257

16110

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Geekbench - OpenCL	41257	16110
PassMark - G3D Mark		5339
PassMark - G2D Mark		644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		60.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		758.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		29.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		231.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1871

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GA107S	GM206
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	20 August 2015
Place in performance rating	532	535
Launch price (MSRP)		$159
Price now		$194.44
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		30.06
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1188 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	1024 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	768
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	49.2 billion / sec
CUDA cores		768
Floating-point performance		1,825 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		90 Watt
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pins
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		7.938" (20.2 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		350 Watt
SLI options		2x
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	105.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	6.6 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround