NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

3514 points

69% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

43 FPS

75 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

52 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

56 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

37 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

5621 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

1382.74 points

272% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

67657 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

61701 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

51683 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

64897 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

59548 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

138th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.