NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2025
Aug 2012
Generation
GeForce 50
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2407 MHz
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Boost Clock
2572 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
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Shading Units
4608
2048
TMUs
144
128
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
144
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RT Cores
36
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
32 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
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32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB206
New Zealand
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
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Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
21.9 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
181 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
500W
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
3x 8-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
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Shader Model
6.8
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
16,065
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
7,486
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3DMark Speed Way
4,152
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.