ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2572MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
3008 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+921%
23.7 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Apr 2025
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2407 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
36
1600
Shading Units
4608
80
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
180W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
GB206
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
