GeForce GTX 960A: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 960A provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 7.83% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 ranking538
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency8.41of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGM107
Market segmentLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (10 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 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1029 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1085 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors1,870 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate43.40of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1.389 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs40of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache320 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache2 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1253 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 and SDK support

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.

GTX 960A
7.83

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
Samples: 32

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 faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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