GeForce GTX 950 LP and A2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 LP
A2
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2016
November 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.02
70.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
12.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
200.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.2