ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +4778%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2025

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

320

Shading Units

4608

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GB206

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GB206

TeraScale

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

0

0.72 billion

Transistors

Unknown

420 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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