NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
3712 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
+4894%
19.18 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
-
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
16
3840
Shading Units
128
120
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
16
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
32 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
145W
TDP
197W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
G92
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
65 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
12.0
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
