AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 14 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +701%

18.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1408

Shading Units

3584

88

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

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

282.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.06 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.06 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

282.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GB206

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GB206

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

Unknown

389 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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