NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 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 late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +4297%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 50

Generation

Radeon R600

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

901 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

32 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

165W

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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

R680

GB206

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.666 billion

Unknown

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

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