NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 2 months late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (145W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
+652%
19.18 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6990
2.55 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Mar 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
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
30
SM Count
-
3840
Shading Units
1536
120
TMUs
96
48
ROPs
32
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
26.56 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
79.68 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.550 TFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
637.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
375W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
Antilles
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
389 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
