NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 115% (2535MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +462%

22.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +1321%

4293

GeForce GTX 970

302

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +428%

412

GeForce GTX 970

78

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +273%

112

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +312%

165

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2535 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

32

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

4352

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

128

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

121.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

324.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

22.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

344.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GM204

AD106-350-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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