NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
nvidia
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory1664
Cores224.4 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 970
nvidia
Brand16GB GDDR6
Memory4352
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 970
$329 • Sep 2014
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
$499 • May 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 148 W | 165 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 2535 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | N/A |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| Shading Units | 1664 | 4352 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 4834 |
| TMUs | 104 | 136 |
| ROPs | 56 | 48 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 65.97 GPixel/s | 121.7 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 224.4 GTexel/s | 344.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 3.92 GFLOPS | 22.06 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 0.03 MB |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 188 mm² |
| Transistors | 5200 Million | 22900 Million |
| Required PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 16-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
NVIDIA • 16GB GDDR6
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