GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 2070 Super

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 2070 Super, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2070 Super should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super is quite a bit (about 135%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 147600 (135%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super will be much (about 53%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 970, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35520 (53%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics 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 number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.