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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

1952%
1952%

AMD Radeon HD 6850

7%
7%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is approximately 1945% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GB205
Barts
CoresDifferent
6144
960
TMUsDifferent
192
48
ROPsDifferent
80
32
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR7
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
192 bit
256 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameDifferent
GB205
Barts
GPU VariantDifferent
GB205-300-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
ArchitectureDifferent
Blackwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process TypeDifferent
4N FinFET
N/A
Process SizeDifferent
5 nm
40 nm
TransistorsDifferent
31,100 million
1,700 million
DensityDifferent
118.3M / mm²
6.7M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
263 mm²
255 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
N/A
HFCBGA-1737

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Release DateDifferent
Mar 4th, 2025
Oct 21st, 2010
AnnouncedDifferent
Jan 6th, 2025
N/A
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 50
Northern Islands(HD 6800)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 40
Evergreen
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
549 USD
179 USD
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
44 in our database
105 in our database
SuccessorDifferent
N/A
Southern Islands

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Base ClockDifferent
2325 MHz
N/A
Boost ClockDifferent
2512 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
1750 MHz28 Gbps effective
1000 MHz4 Gbps effective
GPU ClockDifferent
N/A
775 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
192 bit
256 bit
BandwidthDifferent
672.0 GB/s
128.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Shading UnitsDifferent
6144
960
TMUsDifferent
192
48
ROPsDifferent
80
32
SM CountDifferent
48
N/A
Tensor CoresDifferent
192
N/A
RT CoresDifferent
48
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
48 MB
512 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
12

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Pixel RateDifferent
201.0 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
482.3 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
30.87 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
30.87 TFLOPS
1,488.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
482.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
N/A

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
245 mm9.6 inches
198 mm7.8 inches
HeightDifferent
115 mm4.5 inches
N/A
WidthDifferent
40 mm1.6 inches
N/A
TDPDifferent
250 W
127 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
600 W
300 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG147 SKU 70
109-C22301-00B

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070AMD Radeon HD 6850
DirectXDifferent
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGLDifferent
4.6
4.4
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
1.2
VulkanDifferent
1.4
N/A
CUDADifferent
12.0
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
5.0

Comparison Summary

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