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 Mobile

CORE STATE GB203

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1515 MHz

TDP 95 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

5,871

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

201,834

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

198,405

passmark_directx_10

N/A

183

passmark_directx_11

N/A

269

passmark_directx_12

N/A

138

passmark_directx_9

N/A

324

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,057

passmark_g3d

N/A

30,034

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

13,401

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 5090 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

10,496 +925.0%

Shaders

1,024

10,496 +925.0%

TMUs

64

328 +412.5%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

SM Count

—

82

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1515 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

24,576 +1100.0%

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

169.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

496.9 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

31.80 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

496.9 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

31.80 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

82

Tensor Cores

—

328

Power

TDP

120 W

95 W

TDP (W)

120

95 -20.8%

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

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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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