NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +240%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 50

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB207

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

9.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs ATI FirePro V7800

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD FirePro S9010

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA TITAN V

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD FirePro V5900

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game