NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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 960

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 1178 MHz
1366.3x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 72 billion / sec
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
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
214.3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 41433 vs 18734

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 22 January 2015
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 1178 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 72 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
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 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	41433 vs 18734

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 832 MHz

Core clock speed	1127 MHz vs 832 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41433

18734

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Geekbench - OpenCL	41433	18734
PassMark - G3D Mark		6111
PassMark - G2D Mark		673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		162

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GA107S	GM206
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	22 January 2015
Place in performance rating	511	514
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$229.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1178 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	1127 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	1024
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	72 billion / sec
CUDA cores		1024
Floating-point performance		2,413 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		120 Watt
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
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		9.5" (24.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		400 Watt
SLI options		2x
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	112 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost