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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 +759%
23.22 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6970
2.703 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Jan 2025
Release Date
Dec 2010
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
1375 MHz

Memory

8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
355.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
24
36
SM Count
-
4608
Shading Units
1536
144
TMUs
96
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
28.16 GPixel/s
362.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
23.22 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.22 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
362.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x 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
Cayman
GB206
GPU Variant
Cayman XT (215-0807007)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
0
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
2.64 billion
Unknown
Die Size
389 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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