NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +298%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

-

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

24

SM Count

-

3072

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

New Zealand

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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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