Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2025 | Sep 2014 |
| Generation | GeForce 50 | GeForce 900 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 5.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 2280 MHz | 1127 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2497 MHz | 1216 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 448.0GB/s | 224.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 30 | |
| Shading Units | 3840 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 120 | 128 |
| ROPs | 48 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 120 | |
| RT Cores | 30 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 32 MB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 119.9 GPixel/s | 77.82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 299.6 GTexel/s | 155.6 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 19.18 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 19.18 TFLOPS | 4.981 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 299.6 GFLOPS | 155.6 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GB206 | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | GB206-250-A1 | GM204-400-A1 |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 5 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 21.9 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 181 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 145W | 165W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| 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 | 6.4 |