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

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 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)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +482%

22.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +492%

13492

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

May 2023

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

4352

128

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

136

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD106

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

AD106-351-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x 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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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