MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM with 4 GB GDDR5 and 1,024 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM by 2,201.95% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.1

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

🔥 +700% 32 ГБ
4 GB

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 1.79 TB/s
112.2 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 128 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 118.8 TFLOPS
No

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +4,729% 118.8 TFLOPS
2.46 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +2,314% 1.856 TFLOPS
0.0769 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +2,025% 21,760
1,024

RT Cores

🔥 170
No

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 Maxwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 170
No

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

🔥 12.0
5.2

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

🔥 +72% 2,017
1,176

Boost Clock

🔥 +127% 2,730
1,201

Memory Clock

🔥 1,750
1,753

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -86% 200 W

Power Connector

🔥 2x 16-pin
None

TDP/TGP

1000 W unknown

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +962% 680
64

ROP

🔥 170
No

L2 Cache

🔥 96 MB
1024 KB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Dual-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 Nov. 26, 2015

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
No outputs

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