GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
CORE STATE
TU104
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1770 MHz
TDP
215 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970
RTX 2070 SUPER
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,664
2,560
+53.8%
Shaders
1,664
2,560
+53.8%
TMUs
104
160
+53.8%
ROPs
56
64
+14.3%
SM Count
—
40
Clocks
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1605 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1770 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
113.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
283.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.920 TFLOPS
9.062 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
283.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
18.12 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
40
Tensor Cores
—
320
Power
TDP
148 W
215 W
TDP (W)
148
215
+45.3%
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
GM204
TU104
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 20
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
13,600 million
Die Size
398 mm²
545 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
25.0M / 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
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
116 mm
4.6 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
329 USD
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
GeForce 10
Successor
GeForce 10
GeForce 30