AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Apr 2024
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 40
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2125 MHz
Base Clock
—
1830 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2460 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
272.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
—
Shading Units
1536
3072
TMUs
96
96
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
24 MB
SM Count
—
24
Tensor Cores
—
96
RT Cores
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
118.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
236.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
15.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
236.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
15.11 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
AD106
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
AD106-155-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
22.9 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
188 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
115W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x 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
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
—
8.9
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.