GeForce GTX 970M and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM204
GA107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
December 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1155 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
2,657 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
83.04
73.92
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-