NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 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 5060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti +512%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

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

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x 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

GB206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GB206

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs Intel Arc A750

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD FirePro W2100

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6300

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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