NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2019
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 20
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1365 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1680 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
1920
TMUs
104
120
ROPs
56
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
240
RT Cores
-
30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
80.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
201.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
6.451 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
201.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.90 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
TU106
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TU106-200A-KA-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
160W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
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
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
7,572
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
3,504
OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
54
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
81
Blender
305
-
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
110
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
43
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
76
GTA 5 2160p
-
51
GTA 5 1440p
-
66
GTA 5 1080p
-
146