GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2070, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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 will be 37% faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is just a bit (about 15%) better at texture filtering 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

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a better choice, but only just. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.