NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock 2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 +490%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830MHz

Base Clock

-

2460MHz

Boost Clock

-

2125MHz

Memory Clock

1200MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

272.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

3072

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24MB

L2 Cache

512KB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

AD106-155-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

22,900 million

Transistors

2,800 million

188mm²

Die Size

212mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

300W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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