NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

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

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

20736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +4446%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

170

1024

Shading Units

21760

64

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GB202

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

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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