NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2520MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +2102%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

1024

Shading Units

10752

64

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

350W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GB203

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

10.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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