NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

5440 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +2068%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 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

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

50

SM Count

-

6400

Shading Units

960

200

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

127W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

Barts

GB205

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

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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