RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs GeForce GTS 150 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG92AD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 March 2009 (15 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12814080
Core clock speed738 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors754 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)141 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate47.231,082
Floating-point processing power0.47 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs16176
TMUs64440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s864.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.18.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 March 2009 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 141 Watt 285 Watt

GTS 150 OEM has 102.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 150 OEM and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM
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NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation
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