NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2019
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
885 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1185 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
384.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
2304
TMUs
104
144
ROPs
56
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
SM Count
-
36
Tensor Cores
-
288
RT Cores
-
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
75.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
170.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
5.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
170.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
TU106
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
N18E-G2-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
90W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
7.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
6,924
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
3,230
OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
-
Blender
305
-
3DMark Speed Way
-
1,410