NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 28GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 280.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (184W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2520MHz vs 1650MHz)

More VRAM (28GB vs 12GB)

18304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +1337%

103.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

28GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

160

-

Compute Units

-

2176

Shading Units

20480

136

TMUs

640

48

ROPs

192

272

Tensor Cores

640

34

RT Cores

160

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1613 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.2 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

103.2 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.613 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GB202

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GB202

Turing

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

0 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

445 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

184W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

9.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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