NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (2520MHz vs 2310MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 355.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 50

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

5120

144

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

128

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

335W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Navi 21

GB206

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

7 nm

Unknown

Transistors

26.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.5

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