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 5050

CORE STATE GB207

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2572 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

93,892

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

89,381

passmark_directx_10

N/A

103

passmark_directx_11

N/A

150

passmark_directx_12

N/A

66

passmark_directx_9

N/A

186

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,113

passmark_g3d

N/A

17,326

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,184

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 5050

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

2,560 +150.0%

Shaders

1,024

2,560 +150.0%

TMUs

64

80 +25.0%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

SM Count

—

20

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2317 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2572 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2500 MHz 20 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

82.30 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

205.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

13.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

205.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

13.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

20

Tensor Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

120 W

130 W

TDP (W)

120

130 +8.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GB207

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

16,900 million

Die Size

228 mm²

149 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

113.4M / 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

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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 x8

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

249 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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