GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1635MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+284%
15070
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+301%
14622
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+315%
7001
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+1007%
3378
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+228%
253
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1350 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1635 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
72
1664
Shading Units
4608
104
TMUs
288
56
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
576
-
RT Cores
72
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
157.0 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
470.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.14 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.07 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
470.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
TU102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
TU102-350-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
18.6 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
754 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
7.5
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
