ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +456%

12.9 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2025

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GB207

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GB207

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

294W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

9.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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