NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 140% (2520MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +439%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 50

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x 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

Tahiti

GB206

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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