NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +405%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 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

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

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

26.56 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Antilles

GB207

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.64 billion

Unknown

Die Size

389 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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