NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2018
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 20
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
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Shading Units
2944
1664
TMUs
184
104
ROPs
64
56
Tensor Cores
368
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RT Cores
46
—
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
314.6 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
20.14 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
10.07 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
314.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
GM204
GPU Variant
TU104-400A-A1
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
215W
148W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
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
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
11,078
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
5,146
1,683
3DMark Speed Way
2,171
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Battlefield 5 1080p
158
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
46
15
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
39
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
85
30
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
47
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
127
40
Battlefield 5 2160p
63
—
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
67
—
Battlefield 5 1440p
114
—
GTA 5 2160p
106
—
GTA 5 1440p
108
—
GTA 5 1080p
180
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OctaneBench
—
77
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.