GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GM204
AD104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
April 2024 (recently)
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 16-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
2535 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
35,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
4352
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
160 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
344.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-