GeForce GTX 960A: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 960A provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 8.99% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 960A sales 13 March 2015. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 80.19 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 960A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking482
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency8.23of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGM107
Market segmentLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 960A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 960A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1029 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1085 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors1,870 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate43.40of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power1.389 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs40of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 960A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 960A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1253 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 960A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 960A, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA5.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 960A. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 960A 8.99

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 960A 3464

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 960A is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 960A's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 960A is Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Community ratings

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