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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 10 years and 11 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)

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +412%

22.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310MHz

Base Clock

1000MHz

2535MHz

Boost Clock

1050MHz

2250MHz

Memory Clock

1500MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

Render Config

32

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

4352

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

128

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32MB

L2 Cache

768KB

Theoretical Performance

121.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

324.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

22.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

344.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD106-350-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4,313 million

190mm²

Die Size

352mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

300W

450W

Suggested PSU

700W

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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