AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Apr 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2572 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
4608
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
32 MB
SM Count
—
36
Tensor Cores
—
144
RT Cores
—
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
123.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
23.70 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB206
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
GB206-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
181 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
180W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 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
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
CUDA
—
12.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
15,868
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
7,331
3DMark Speed Way
—
4,044
Blender
—
4,494
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.