NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 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 1024GB)

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

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +456%

12.9 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 50

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

294W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Hemlock

GB207

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.154 billion

Unknown

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

9.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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