GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 2080
CORE STATE
TU104
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1710 MHz
TDP
215 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
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 970M
RTX 2080
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
2,944
+130.0%
Shaders
1,280
2,944
+130.0%
TMUs
80
184
+130.0%
ROPs
48
64
+33.3%
SM Count
—
46
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1515 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
8,192
+33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
109.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
314.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
20.14 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
46
Tensor Cores
—
368
Power
TDP
—
215 W
TDP (W)
—
215
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
GM204
TU104
Generation
GeForce 900M
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
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
116 mm
4.6 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
GeForce 10
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 30