NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 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 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB 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 AD104 +462%

22.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2024

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

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

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

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FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-150-K1-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

160W

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 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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