NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 339.79

$ 29.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

6694 points

195% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

161 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

77 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

113 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

61 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

3124.65 points

977% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

101567 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

99687 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1925 MHz

83% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2075 MHz

76% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

37% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

101% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

211% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

523% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

5888

253% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

184

76% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 4060 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the GeForce GTX 970.