GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 4060

CORE STATE AD107

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2460 MHz

TDP 115 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

101,030

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,302

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

98,095

passmark_directx_10

N/A

103

passmark_directx_11

N/A

175

passmark_directx_12

N/A

76

passmark_directx_9

N/A

236

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,037

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,545

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,213

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 4060

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

3,072 +50.0%

Shaders

2,048

3,072 +50.0%

TMUs

128

96 -25.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

24

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1830 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2460 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2125 MHz 17 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

8,192 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

272.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

118.1 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

15.11 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

236.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

15.11 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

24

Tensor Cores

—

96

Power

TDP

250 W

115 W

TDP (W)

250

115 -54.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD107

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

18,900 million

Die Size

352 mm²

159 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

118.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

8.9

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

240 mm 9.4 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

299 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 30

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 50

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