GeForce GTX 950M and RTX A500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950M vs RTX A500
GeForce GTX 950M
2663
RTX A500
6993
GeForce GTX 950M
RTX A500
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N16P-GT
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
November 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
914 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,439 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
44.96
113.3
Memory type
DDR3 or GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 or 2500 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32 or 80 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-