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 2080 SUPER

CORE STATE TU104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1815 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

1,882

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

114,190

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

108,401

passmark_directx_10

46

140

passmark_directx_11

71

165

passmark_directx_12

41

75

passmark_directx_9

143

227

passmark_g2d

764

920

passmark_g3d

9,638

19,490

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

8,290

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 2080 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

3,072 +84.6%

Shaders

1,664

3,072 +84.6%

TMUs

104

192 +84.6%

ROPs

56

64 +14.3%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1815 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1937 MHz 15.5 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

495.9 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

116.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

348.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

22.30 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

384

Power

TDP

148 W

250 W

TDP (W)

148

250 +68.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 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

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 30

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