GeForce GTX 950 and Tesla A100 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 950

Tesla A100

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM206

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

August 2015

-

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

350 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pins

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1188 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1024 MHz

1110 MHz

CUDA cores

768

-

Floating-point performance

1,825 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

38,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

7936

Power consumption (TDP)

90 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

49.2 billion/sec

550.6

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

6.6 GB/s

2400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

105.6 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Multi monitor support

4 displays

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

-

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

1.1.126

-

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-