NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jul 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
1470 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
2176
TMUs
104
136
ROPs
56
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
SM Count
—
34
Tensor Cores
—
272
RT Cores
—
34
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
105.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
7.181 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
224.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
14.36 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
TU106
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TU106-410-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
175W
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
8,741
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
4,125
OctaneBench
77
234
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
64
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
92
Blender
305
2,268
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,838
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
122
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
—
29
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
—
36
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
48
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
94
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
—
53
GTA 5 2160p
—
61
GTA 5 1440p
—
86
GTA 5 1080p
—
174
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.