AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 141% (2535MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 +412%

22.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2024

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

4352

128

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

136

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

AD104-150-K1-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

160W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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