NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 139% (2572MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+291%
23.7 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+177%
16065
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+166%
7486
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Apr 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
2407 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
36
2816
Shading Units
4608
176
TMUs
144
96
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
180W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GB206
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
8 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
