NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2015
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1176 MHz
2317 MHz
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
2572 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2560
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
24 MB
SM Count
—
20
Tensor Cores
—
80
RT Cores
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
82.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
205.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
13.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GB207
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
GB207-300-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
130W
Suggested PSU
200 W
300 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
5.2
12.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.