AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
May 2025
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 50
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
2280 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
2497 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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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
28.80 GPixel/s
119.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
19.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GB206
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
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
100W
145W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
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
—
13,735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
6,452
3DMark Speed Way
—
3,494
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.