NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +1411%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 50

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

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

25.60 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

254W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Barts

GB206

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

255 mm²

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.0

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