NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2025
Nov 2015
Generation
GeForce 50
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2317 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
112.2GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
24 MB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
82.30 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
205.8 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
13.17 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
13.17 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.8 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GB207
GM206
GPU Variant
GB207-300-A1
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
16.9 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
Unknown
228 mm²

Board Design

TDP
130W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
300 W
200 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
CUDA
12.0
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.7