NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +648%

18.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

282.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.06 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.06 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

282.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GB206

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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