NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
3040 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
+1327%
19.18 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6790
1.344 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 50
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
-
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
30
SM Count
-
3840
Shading Units
800
120
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.44 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1344 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
145W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
Barts
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
Barts LE
(215-0798002)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
12.0
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.0
