NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
2374 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS
60 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
29 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
41 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
1260% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
268 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
748.80 points
158% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
45986 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
44007 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
42589 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
184th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2050 over the GeForce GTX 970.

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