NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 259.96 significantly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

3755 points

164% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

29 FPS

96 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

45 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

64 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

35 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

1954.21 points

1065% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

84002 points

372% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

76373 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

58378 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

73300 points

270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

69543 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

100% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

288 GB/s

156% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

70 W

71% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

57.6 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

124.8 Gigatexels/s

65% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

7.99 TFLOPS

230% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3328

224% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

62% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs RTX A2000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A2000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the RTX A2000 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A2000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.