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.

 

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