AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +563%

18.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

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

282.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.06 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.06 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

282.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GB206

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GB206

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 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

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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