GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 215W)
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1710MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 2080
+156%
10070
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 2080
+203%
11078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 2080
+205%
5146
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce RTX 2080
+206%
46
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce RTX 2080
+183%
85
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce RTX 2080
+217%
127
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce RTX 2080
+152%
106
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce RTX 2080
+145%
108
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce RTX 2080
+83%
180
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2018
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
46
1664
Shading Units
2944
104
TMUs
184
56
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
368
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
314.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
20.14 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.07 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
314.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
TU104
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
TU104-400A-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
13.6 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
545 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
7.5
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
