NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3514 points

4534 points

29% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

112 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

57 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

78 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

44 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

2352.59 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

67657 points

98709 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

92420 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

71210 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

84300 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

82804 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1703 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

0.49% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

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

336 GB/s

27% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

140% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

3840

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

Identical

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2021 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

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.