AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 and 5 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +376%

18.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

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

2500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

282.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.06 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.06 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

282.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

115W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GB206

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GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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