GeForce GTX 960M and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960M

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16P-GX

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2015

March 2022

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1202 MHz

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

1096 MHz

-

CUDA cores

640

-

Floating-point performance

1,505 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 (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

47.04

98.37

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2500 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

96 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

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3

Ansel

+

-

BatteryBoost

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

+

-

Optimus

+

-