ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +374%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jan 2025

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GB207

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GB207

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

9.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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