GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 5070

CORE STATE GB205

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2512 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

5,077

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

185,269

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

179,413

passmark_directx_10

N/A

180

passmark_directx_11

N/A

277

passmark_directx_12

N/A

108

passmark_directx_9

N/A

320

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,305

passmark_g3d

N/A

29,137

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

15,787

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 5070

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

6,144 +500.0%

Shaders

1,024

6,144 +500.0%

TMUs

64

192 +200.0%

ROPs

32

80 +150.0%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2325 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2512 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

12,288 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

128 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

201.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

482.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

30.87 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

482.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

30.87 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

120 W

250 W

TDP (W)

120

250 +108.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GB205

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

31,100 million

Die Size

228 mm²

263 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

118.3M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

12.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

245 mm 9.6 inches

Height

—

115 mm 4.5 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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