Radeon HD 7970M X2 and GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970M X2
GeForce RTX 4060 AD106
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Wimbledon
AD106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
April 2024 (recently)
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2460 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
22,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
236.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.8 GB/s
17 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
272.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3