NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 112% (2520MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

20992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +5910%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

768

680

TMUs

48

192

ROPs

32

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

90W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GM206

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.94 billion

Unknown

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

10.1

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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