NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2000MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

10112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile +2757%

43.01 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 50 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

640

336

TMUs

40

128

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

256.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

672.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

43.01 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

43.01 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

GM107

-

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.87 billion

377 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

10.1

CUDA

5.0

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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