AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +512%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

2048

Shading Units

4608

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GB206

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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