NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2520MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +366%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

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

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

2048

Shading Units

4608

128

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GB206

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 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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