NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +539%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 50

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1120

80

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Barts

GB207

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

255 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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