NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2535MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +482%

22.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +492%

13492

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2535 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

4352

Shading Units

2048

136

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

136

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

121.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

344.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

22.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

344.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD106-351-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

22.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

188 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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