AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2535MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB +716%

22.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

34

1536

Shading Units

4352

96

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

136

-

RT Cores

34

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

160W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

AD106

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

AD106-350-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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