MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and has 4352 texture shaders and 68 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, which has 1664 shaders and 13 execution units.
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
TU102 GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
Turing Architecture Maxwell 2.0
68 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
4352 Shader 1664
88 Render Output Units 56
272 Texture Units 104
68 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X has 11 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 616 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

11 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
616 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
352 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X clocks in the base with up to 1.350 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC is 1.101 GHz.

1.350 GHz Base Clock 1.101 GHz
1.755 GHz Boost Clock 1.241 GHz
1.55 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.22 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC has a TDP of 145 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 145 W
350 W TDP (up) --
89 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X has a total of 2 Axial-Radial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial-Radial Fan-Type Radial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
1 x 65 mm Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
45 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
MSI Mystic Light LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X is 268 mm long, 114 mm high and 41 mm wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC is 263 mm long, 121 mm high and 36 mm wide.

268 mm Length 263 mm
114 mm Height 121 mm
41 mm Width 36 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1420 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 1,699 $.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC was introduced in Q3/2015 at a price of 329 $.

-- Part-no GV-N970TTOC-4GD
Q3/2018 Release date Q3/2015
1,699 $ Launch Price 329 $
12 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
11 GB GDDR6
55 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
11 GB GDDR6
69 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
11 GB GDDR6
97 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
11 GB GDDR6
91 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
11 GB GDDR6
162 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk X
11 GB GDDR6
222 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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