Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2026 | Jan 2015 |
| Generation | GeForce 50 | GeForce 900 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1740 MHz | 1127 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2377 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 24GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 1.34TB/s | 112.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 110 | |
| Shading Units | 14080 | 1024 |
| TMUs | 440 | 64 |
| ROPs | 160 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 440 | |
| RT Cores | 110 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 96 MB | 1024 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 380.3 GPixel/s | 37.70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 1045.9 GTexel/s | 75.39 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 66.94 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 66.94 TFLOPS | 2.413 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 1045.9 GFLOPS | 75.39 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GB202 | GM206 |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 5 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 92.2 billion | 2.94 billion |
| Die Size | 750 mm² | 228 mm² |
| GPU Variant | GM206-300-A1 | |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 500W | 120W |
| Suggested PSU | 900 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 16-pin | 1x 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 | 6.9 | 6.4 |