GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
GeForce GTX 970
9932
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
16367
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GM204
TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
December 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1650 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
2176
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
184 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
224.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-