NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 280W)
NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
TITAN RTX
+316%
16.31 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
TITAN RTX
+311%
15001
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
TITAN RTX
+335%
7332
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
TITAN RTX
+883%
2999
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
TITAN RTX
+371%
363
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
TITAN RTX
+353%
68
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
TITAN RTX
+313%
124
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
TITAN RTX
+330%
172
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
TITAN RTX
+209%
130
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
TITAN RTX
+195%
130
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
TITAN RTX
+83%
180
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2018
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
1770 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/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
169.9 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
509.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
32.62 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.31 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
509.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
280W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
TU102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
TU102-400-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
6.6
