GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 5090
[ VERDICT ]
Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)
GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 960 (11/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.
Benchmark Performance Comparison
Normalized Lab Scores| Benchmark | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | 18.0 Poor | 48.0 Poor WINNER |
| Gaming | 8.0 Poor | 100.0 Excellent WINNER |
Detailed Technical Specifications
3D Mark
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Strike | 7720 | 87569 |
| Night Raid | 31121 | 206648 |
| Time Spy | 2302 | 46873 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 4543 | 108751 |
| Port Royal | — | 38202 |
| Solar Bay | — | 236689 |
API
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| CUDA | 5.2 | 12.0 |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.2 | 2.1b |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.4 |
Games
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p High | 26 | 299 |
| 1080p Ultra | 19 | 254 |
| 1440p Ultra | 13 | 207 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 125 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 30241612 | 334322260184 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 462919- | 36326520299 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1411-- | 26123316077 |
| Far Cry 6 | 31271610 | 237202190121 |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 291413- | 336247233187 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 15--- | 221185175113 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 181210- | 24919916697 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 282615- | 329302238128 |
| The Witcher 3 | 241813- | 364327237123 |
GeekBench 6 ML
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 5491 | 85572 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 3654 | 114685 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Image Classification (SP) | 1492 | 18948 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 2183 | 55109 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 3618 | 58478 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2085 | 8184 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1927 | 27802 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 11306 | 344729 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 22683 | 687080 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1315 | 4464 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
| Background Blur | 51.7 img/sec | 333 img/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.36 Gpixels/sec | 33.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 26.1 img/sec | 298.5 img/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.14 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.26 Gpixels/sec | 34.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.84 Gpixels/sec | 21.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 1825 FPS | 59146.9 FPS |
| Stereo Matching | 64.9 Gpixels/sec | 2850 Gpixels/sec |
General
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| GPU Codename | GM206 | GB202-300 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | $1999 |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Released | January 22, 2015 | January 7, 2025 |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Recommended CPU | — | -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Base Clock | 1127 MHz | 2017 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 2407 MHz |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 170 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
| L1 Cache | 48KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1MB shared | 96MB shared |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 170 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 176 |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 21760 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 680 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 680 |
Memory
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Bus | 128-bit | 512-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
| Effective Memory Speed | 7000 Mbps | 28000 Mbps |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR7 |
Passmark Graphics
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX 11 | 42 FPS | 341 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 28 FPS | 179 FPS |
| G2D Mark | 676 | 1410 |
| GPU Compute | 2801 Ops/s | 24360 Ops/s |
Physical
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 750 mm² |
| Fabrication Process | 28 nm | 4 nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| TGP | 120 W | 575 W |
| Transistor Count | 2 billion | 92.2 billion |
| Transistor Density | 8.77 MTr/mm² | 122.93 MTr/mm² |
Raw Performance
| Specification | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Fill Rate | 38 GPixel/s | 424 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 75 GTexel/s | 1637 GTexel/s |
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