GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5060 Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 112% (2497MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 5060
+389%
19180
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 5060
+276%
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 5060
+283%
6452
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
30
1664
Shading Units
3840
104
TMUs
120
56
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
145W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GB206
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
