ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 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 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 +551%

15.11 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2024

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1830 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1600

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

115W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

AD106

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

AD106-155-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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