Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 May 2025
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 50
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz 2280 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz 2497 MHz
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 179.2GB/s 448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 3840
TMUs 80 120
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 32 MB
SM Count 30
Tensor Cores 120
RT Cores 30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.60 GPixel/s 119.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 84.00 GTexel/s 299.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.688 TFLOPS 19.18 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 168.0 GFLOPS 299.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 19.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Curacao GB206
GPU Variant Curacao XT(215-0848004) GB206-250-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Blackwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 5 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 21.9 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 181 mm²
Board Design
TDP 180W 145W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors 2x 6-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
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 1769 13735