NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 +298%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

-

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3072

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD106-155-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

22.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

188 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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