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 SUPER

CORE STATE TU106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1650 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

2,011

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

87,670

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

83,503

passmark_directx_10

46

111

passmark_directx_11

71

130

passmark_directx_12

41

61

passmark_directx_9

143

218

passmark_g2d

764

854

passmark_g3d

9,638

16,462

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

6,721

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 2060 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

2,176 +30.8%

Shaders

1,664

2,176 +30.8%

TMUs

104

136 +30.8%

ROPs

56

64 +14.3%

SM Count

—

34

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

8,192 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

105.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

224.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

14.36 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

34

Tensor Cores

—

272

Power

TDP

148 W

175 W

TDP (W)

148

175 +18.2%

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

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 30

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