NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
About GPU
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A is a mobile GPU that offers impressive performance and power efficiency for laptops and other mobile computing devices. With a base clock of 1029MHz and a boost clock of 1085MHz, this GPU delivers smooth and efficient operation for a variety of applications, from gaming to video editing.
The 2GB of GDDR5 memory and a memory clock of 1253MHz ensures that the GTX 960A can handle demanding tasks with ease, providing fast and responsive performance for graphics-intensive games and applications. With 640 shading units and 2MB of L2 cache, this GPU offers impressive rendering capabilities and image quality, making it a great choice for those who need a reliable and high-performing graphics solution.
With a TDP of 75W, the GTX 960A strikes a good balance between performance and power efficiency, making it an ideal choice for mobile devices that need to conserve battery life without sacrificing graphical performance. The theoretical performance of 1.389 TFLOPS ensures that this GPU is capable of handling even the most demanding tasks with ease, providing smooth and reliable performance for a wide range of applications.
Overall, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A is a solid choice for anyone in need of a high-performance mobile GPU, offering impressive performance, power efficiency, and reliable operation for a variety of tasks.
Basic
Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Mobile
Launch Date
March 2015
Model Name
GeForce GTX 960A
Generation
GeForce 900A
Base Clock
1029MHz
Boost Clock
1085MHz
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Transistors
1,870 million
TMUs
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Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
40
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Architecture
Maxwell
Memory Specifications
Memory Size
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
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The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
128bit
Memory Clock
1253MHz
Bandwidth
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Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
80.19 GB/s
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
17.36 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
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Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
43.40 GTexel/s
FP64 (double)
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An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
43.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
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An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
1.361
TFLOPS
Miscellaneous
Shading Units
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The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
640
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2MB
TDP
75W
Vulkan Version
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Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (11_0)
CUDA
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
ROPs
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The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
16
Benchmarks
FP32 (float)
Score
1.361
TFLOPS
OpenCL
Score
11820
Compared to Other GPU
FP32 (float)
/ TFLOPS
OpenCL