NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 116% (2550MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
11776 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+2605%
65.28 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+516%
14170
GeForce GTX 960
2300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+1139%
12700
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Blender
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+3081%
6013
GeForce GTX 960
189
OctaneBench
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+1673%
816
GeForce GTX 960
46
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Jan 2015
Quadro Ada
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1155 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2550 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
576.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
100
SM Count
-
12800
Shading Units
1024
400
TMUs
64
176
ROPs
32
400
Tensor Cores
-
100
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
448.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
1020 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
65.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
65.28 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
1020 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GM206
AD102
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
609 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
