GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 2070, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
	Difference: 5162 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 122752 (37%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be a small bit (about 15%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27040 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be a little bit (more or less 6%) more effective at AA than the GeForce RTX 2070, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5760 (6%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.