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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Higher Boost Clock: 2520 MHz (2520 MHz vs 2505MHz)
Newer Launch Date: January 2025 (January 2025 vs September 2022)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Larger Memory Size: 16GB (8GB vs 16GB)
Higher Bandwidth: 716.8 GB/s (80.00GB/s vs 716.8 GB/s)
More Shading Units: 9728 (4608 vs 9728)

Basic

NVIDIA

Label Name

NVIDIA

January 2025

Launch Date

September 2022

Desktop

Platform

Desktop

GeForce RTX 5060

Model Name

GeForce RTX 4080

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 40

2235 MHz

Base Clock

2205MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2505MHz

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Unknown

Transistors

45,900 million

RT Cores

144

Tensor Cores

Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.

304

144

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

304

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

5 nm

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Memory Specifications

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

256bit

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400MHz

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

716.8 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

280.6 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

761.5 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

48.74 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

761.5 GFLOPS

22.756 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

47.765 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

4608

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

9728

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

64MB

170W

TDP

320W

1.3

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

3.0

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

9.1

CUDA

8.9

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

112

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

450 W

Suggested PSU

700W