NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

584 points

42789 points

7226% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

13 FPS

1019 FPS

1006 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

503 FPS

492 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

740 FPS

730 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

425 FPS

416 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

14480 points

1075% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

14992.38 points

10640% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

383325 points

3210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

380401 points

3889% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

2017 MHz

83% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

2407 MHz

104% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

32 GiB

700% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

784% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

2150% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

21760

3299% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680

1599% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

1000% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

313th of 594

1st of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.