GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2070, which features GPU core speed of 1410 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 970		10867 points
	Difference: 11415 (105%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2070 should be 105% quicker than the GeForce GTX 970 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 234752 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a lot (about 86%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93840 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23040 (34%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.