AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 140% (2520MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +199%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

100W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GB207

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

9.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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