NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 294.49

$ 585.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

8233 points

230% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

191 FPS

139 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

95 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

139 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

75 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3149 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

3690.41 points

904% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

126840 points

266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

120026 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

2280 MHz

102% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2497 MHz

105% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

145 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

54% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

92% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3840

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

178th of 597

51st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2025 May

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 980 vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.

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