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 5090

CORE STATE GB202

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2407 MHz

TDP 575 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

14,411

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

380,114

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

379,571

passmark_directx_10

N/A

226

passmark_directx_11

N/A

341

passmark_directx_12

N/A

185

passmark_directx_9

N/A

395

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,413

passmark_g3d

N/A

39,650

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

26,756

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 5090

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

21,760 +2025.0%

Shaders

1,024

21,760 +2025.0%

TMUs

64

680 +962.5%

ROPs

32

176 +450.0%

SM Count

—

170

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2017 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2407 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

32 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

32,768 +1500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

128 bit

512 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

1.79 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

423.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

1,636.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

104.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

1.637 TFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

104.8 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

170

Tensor Cores

—

680

Power

TDP

120 W

575 W

TDP (W)

120

575 +379.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

950 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GB202

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

92,200 million

Die Size

228 mm²

750 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

122.9M / 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

304 mm 12 inches

Height

—

137 mm 5.4 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

1,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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