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 5080 Mobile

CORE STATE GB203

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1500 MHz

TDP 80 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

4,952

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

166,986

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

169,754

passmark_directx_10

N/A

171

passmark_directx_11

N/A

253

passmark_directx_12

N/A

116

passmark_directx_9

N/A

314

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,095

passmark_g3d

N/A

27,711

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

12,134

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 5080 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

7,680 +650.0%

Shaders

1,024

7,680 +650.0%

TMUs

64

240 +275.0%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

SM Count

—

60

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

16,384 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

896.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

144.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

360.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

360.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

23.04 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

60

Tensor Cores

—

240

Power

TDP

120 W

80 W

TDP (W)

120

80 -33.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

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Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GB203

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

45,600 million

Die Size

228 mm²

378 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

120.6M / 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

IGP

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

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