NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 9 years and 7 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 RTX 4060 AD106 +285%

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

3072

Shading Units

1664

96

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

148W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GM204

AD106-155-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

22.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

188 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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