NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2460MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4060
+285%
15.11 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 4060
+191%
10615
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 4060
+194%
4959
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 4060
+1002%
3363
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce RTX 4060
+355%
351
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce RTX 4060
+206%
46
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce RTX 4060
+213%
94
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce RTX 4060
+315%
166
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce RTX 4060
+95%
82
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce RTX 4060
+104%
90
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce RTX 4060
+93%
190
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1830 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2460 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2125 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
272.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
1664
Shading Units
3072
104
TMUs
96
56
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
118.1 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
236.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.11 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.11 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
236.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
115W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
AD107-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
