AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jun 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
2317 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2572 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
2560
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
24 MB
SM Count
—
20
Tensor Cores
—
80
RT Cores
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
82.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
205.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
13.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB207
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
GB207-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
300W
130W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.