NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 355.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2520MHz vs 2475MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +25%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

36

5888

Shading Units

4608

184

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

144

46

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GB206

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

0

35.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

295 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

10.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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