NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 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

3514 points

70% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

385% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

67657 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1506 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1708 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

37% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

15% slightly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

66% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.