GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 970M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR) |
| Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS) |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce RTX 2060 | | GeForce GTX 970M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | TU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1) | vs | GM204 (N16E-GT-A2) |
| Fab Process | 12 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 445 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 10,800 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 1920 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 30 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 1365 MHz | vs | 1038 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 120 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce RTX 2060 | | GeForce GTX 970M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce RTX 2060 | | GeForce GTX 970M | |
|---|
| TDP | 160 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 15 Jan 2019 | vs | 7 Oct 2014 |
GeForce RTX 2060
80.64 GP/s
GeForce GTX 970M
49.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 2060
201.60 GT/s
GeForce GTX 970M
83.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce RTX 2060
336.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 970M
120.30 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce RTX 2060
6451.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 970M
2657.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better