NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Price

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$ 674.49

$ 469.00

$ 205.49 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

50 %

117% significantly better overall score

23 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

45 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

68 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

77 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

51 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7504

106% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3642

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1743.41

464% significantly higher Blender score

308.84

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

25908

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29153

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34107

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75055

206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24465

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71946

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

31608

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

145 W

10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

65.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

122.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

64% significantly better floating point performance

3.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

15% slightly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

15% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

46th of 363

93rd of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2019

September 2014

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 970 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 2060 has a slightly 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 2060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 is better than the GeForce GTX 970.