NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

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

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

19584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (184W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +1427%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

34

21760

Shading Units

2176

680

TMUs

136

192

ROPs

48

680

Tensor Cores

272

170

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

184W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

TU106

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

10.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

445 mm²

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

10.1

CUDA

7.5

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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