AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +810%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

1536

Shading Units

4608

96

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GB206

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GB206

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0

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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