NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

3008 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +900%

23.22 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

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

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

4608

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Hemlock

GB206

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

Board Design

170W

TDP

294W

450 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 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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