GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970M makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 924 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1920 SPUs as well as 120 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.