NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 18 years late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
3520 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
+3929%
19.18 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 50
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
-
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
30
SM Count
-
3840
Shading Units
320
120
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
16
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
32 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.89 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
145W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
R600
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
12.0
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
