AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Apr 2024
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 40
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2125 MHz
Base Clock
—
1830 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2460 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
272.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
3072
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
24 MB
SM Count
—
24
Tensor Cores
—
96
RT Cores
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
118.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
236.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
15.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
236.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
15.11 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD106
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
AD106-155-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
22.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
188 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
115W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
—
8.9
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.