GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
CORE STATE
GB206
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2572 MHz
TDP
180 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Blackwell 2.0
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
4,608
+125.0%
Shaders
2,048
4,608
+125.0%
TMUs
128
144
+12.5%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
36
Clocks
Base Clock
—
2407 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2572 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
28 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
16,384
+433.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
32 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
123.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
370.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
23.70 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
36
Tensor Cores
—
144
Power
TDP
250 W
180 W
TDP (W)
250
180
-28.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB206
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
GeForce 50
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
21,900 million
Die Size
352 mm²
181 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
121.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
12.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
241 mm
9.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
429 USD
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Northern Islands
GeForce 40
Successor
Sea Islands
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