GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2060, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2060 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 120064 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a lot (approximately 50%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54600 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be a little bit (more or less 3%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 2060, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1680 (3%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the 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 speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.