NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1545MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +243%

13.45 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +302%

14594

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +286%

58

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +263%

109

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +262%

145

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +114%

90

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +231%

146

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +83%

180

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

616.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

-

4352

Shading Units

1664

272

TMUs

104

88

ROPs

56

544

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

0 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

136.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

420.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

26.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.45 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

420.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

600 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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

GM204

TU102-300A-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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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