NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

4368 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +7962%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 50

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

240

144

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

32 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

R600

GB206

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.72 billion

Unknown

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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