NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 115% (2535MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +462%

22.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +272%

13487

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +286%

58

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +293%

118

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +405%

202

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +123%

94

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +131%

102

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

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

2310 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

1664

Shading Units

4352

104

TMUs

136

56

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

136

-

RT Cores

34

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD106

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD106-351-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

188 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

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