NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.41 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB has 4608 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.57 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 23.70 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is based on the Blackwell architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TI 8GB
GM206-300-A1 GPU Chip GB206
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Blackwell
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
1024 Shader 4608
32 Render Output Units 48
64 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 36

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB has a 8 GB large GDDR7 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

2 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR7
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is 2.572 GHz.

1.127 GHz Base Clock 2.407 GHz
1.178 GHz Boost Clock 2.572 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 87 °C.

120 W TDP 180 W (Reference)
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 87 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type --
1 x 65 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
3x DP v1.2 DP Ports 3x DP v2.1b
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
No h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
No VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of -- in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is -- and thus requires the space of -- in the PC case.

241 mm Length --
-- Height --
-- Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) --
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 8
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 was released in Q1/2015.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB published in Q2/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 4 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q1/2015 Release date Q2/2025
199 $ Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 4 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
17964

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
20498

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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