NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2023
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 40
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1830 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2460 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2125 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
272.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
24
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Shading Units
3072
1664
TMUs
96
104
ROPs
48
56
Tensor Cores
96
—
RT Cores
24
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
24 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
118.1 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
236.2 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
15.11 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
15.11 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
236.2 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD107
GM204
GPU Variant
AD107-400-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
18.9 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
159 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
115W
148W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.9
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
10,615
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,959
1,683
OctaneBench
351
77
3DMark Speed Way
2,646
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Blender
3,363
305
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.