NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +131%

9.062 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +178%

10094

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +180%

42

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +166%

80

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +195%

118

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +61%

68

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +118%

96

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +83%

180

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1664

160

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

320

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

283.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

18.12 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.062 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

283.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GM204

TU104-410-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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