AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 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 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 +298%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2024

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1830 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2048

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

115W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD106

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

AD106-155-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

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

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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