NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 644.18 significantly less expensive

$ 1013.18

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

7909 points

249% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

177 FPS

130 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

108 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

127 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

82 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

11584 points

217% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

2321.66 points

700% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

126130 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

114956 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

93540 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

118678 points

305% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

111284 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1650 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1815 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

495.9 GB/s

120% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

72% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

116.2 Gigapixels/s

76% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

348.5 Gigatexels/s

184% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

184% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

3072

84% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

192

84% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

57th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.