AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Apr 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2572 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
448.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
4608
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
32 MB
SM Count
-
36
Tensor Cores
-
144
RT Cores
-
36

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
123.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.70 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GB206
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
GB206-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
181 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
180W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
12.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
15,868
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
7,331
3DMark Speed Way
-
4,044
Blender
-
4,494