GeForce GTX 960 and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
RTX A500 Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
March 2022
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1537 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
98.37
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
96 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 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-