Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2025 Jan 2013
Generation GeForce 50 Sea Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 2325 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 2512 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 384bit
Bandwidth 672.0GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 48
Shading Units 6144 1792
TMUs 192 112
ROPs 80 32
Tensor Cores 192
RT Cores 48
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 48 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 201.0 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 482.3 GTexel/s 103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 30.87 TFLOPS 3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 482.3 GFLOPS 828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GB205 Tahiti
GPU Variant GB205-300-A1 Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 5 nm 28 nm
Transistors 31.1 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 263 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 200W
Suggested PSU 600 W 550 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 16-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.2
CUDA 12.0
Shader Model 6.8 5.1