NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2020
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
735 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
352.0GB/s
224.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
48
-
Shading Units
3072
1664
TMUs
192
104
ROPs
64
56
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
62.40 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
187.2 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
11.98 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
5.990 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
187.2 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
TU104
GM204
GPU Variant
N18E-G3R
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
398 mm²

Board Design

TDP
80W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,683
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40
Blender
-
305