NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GM204 TU104
GPU variant GM204-200-A1 N18E-G3-A1
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Turing
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 12 nm
Number of transistors 5,200 million 13,600 million
Die size 398 mm² 545 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 900
Production End-of-life
Launch price 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 111 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 10

Clocks

Base clock 1050 MHz 735 MHz
Boost clock 1178 MHz 1095 MHz
Memory clock 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective 1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 224.4 GB/s 384.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1664 2944
TMUs 104 184
ROPs 56 64
SMM count 13
Cache L1 48 KB (per SMM) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 4 MB
SM count 46
Tensor cores 368
RT cores 46

Performance

Pixel rate 65.97 GPixel/s 70.08 GPixel/s
Texture rate 122.5 GTexel/s 201.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.920 TFLOPS 6.447 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32) 201.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 12.89 TFLOPS (2:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 148 W 80 W
Suggested PSU 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 6-pin None
Board number PG401 E4914 SKU 10

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.2
CUDA 5.2 7.5
Shader model 6.4 6.6

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 29th, 2019
Generation GeForce 20 Mobile
Production Active
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor GeForce 30 Mobile

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