GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 2060

CORE STATE TU106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1680 MHz

TDP 160 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

1,242

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

71,278

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

67,425

passmark_directx_10

46

98

passmark_directx_11

71

110

passmark_directx_12

41

53

passmark_directx_9

143

190

passmark_g2d

764

745

passmark_g3d

9,638

14,111

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

5,488

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 2060

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

1,920 +15.4%

Shaders

1,664

1,920 +15.4%

TMUs

104

120 +15.4%

ROPs

56

48 -14.3%

SM Count

—

30

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1365 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1680 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

80.64 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

201.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

12.90 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

30

Tensor Cores

—

240

Power

TDP

148 W

160 W

TDP (W)

148

160 +8.1%

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM204

TU106

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 20

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

10,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

445 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

24.3M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

7.5

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

229 mm 9 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

113 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

349 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 30

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