GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs 2070 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB with 34 pipelines and 4352 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month older RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB that utilizes 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
30.4
(Mediocre)
Value Index
30.9
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2070 SUPER over RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
  • Performs better (up to 35%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (22.1 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 30% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 86 vs 66 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 29% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (135K vs 105K)
  • Has 70% more shading units (4352 vs 2560)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
  • Features 184 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 56% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 288 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
144
94
83
62
123
74
65
44
The Witcher 3
172
141
99
53
136
113
79
43
Counter-Strike 2
245
190
132
76
202
146
107
56
Far Cry 6
129
117
92
56
103
91
73
40
Hogwarts Legacy
95
81
62
32
74
61
46
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
118
112
81
52
93
86
59
41
Ghost of Tsushima
88
75
57
31
73
58
41
26
Cyberpunk 2077
105
92
56
26
82
72
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
161
147
111
59
121
114
80
41
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 112
1080p Ultra 117 91
1440p Ultra 86 66
4K Ultra 50 38
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
13566
Time Spy 13456 10166
Solar Bay 62446 45863
Port Royal 8119 6032
Fire Strike 34258 25679
Wild Life Extreme 25587 20744
Night Raid 135657 102662
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
135837
Background Blur 232.6 img/sec 166.7 img/sec
Face Detection 138.4 img/sec 103.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.68 Gpixels/sec 4.21 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.06 Gpixels/sec 5.56 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.99 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 652.6 Gpixels/sec 489.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19534.7 FPS 13242.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
15700

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
22551
G2D Mark 1078 878
DirectX 11 199 FPS 154 FPS
DirectX 12 89 FPS 67 FPS
GPU Compute 11953 Ops/s 7441 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2402 & 20407 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3832.52
2352.17
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2727 & 1422 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) - 6648
Image Segmentation (HP) - 16442
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 15383
Face Detection (HP) - 32861
Pose Estimation (Q) - 66348
Text Classification (SP) - 2166
Machine Translation (HP) - 4239
Object Detection (SP) - 8194
Depth Estimation (Q) - 26192
Style Transfer (SP) - 137642
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and 2070 SUPER

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 18, 2023 July 9, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $499
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD106 TU104
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 14600K or above - Intel Core i7 9700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (40th and 57th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2310 MHz 1605 MHz
Boost Clock 2535 MHz 1770 MHz
Shading Units 4352 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 136 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 34 40
Tensor Cores 136 320
Ray-tracing Cores 34 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 113 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 345 GTexel/s 283 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
22.1 TFLOPS
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 165 W 215 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 188 mm² 545 mm²
Transistor Count 22 billion 13 billion
Transistor Density 117.02 MTr/mm² 23.85 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
288 GB/s
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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