NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 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

3514 points

8113 points

130% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

197 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

96 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

140 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

77 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

13651 points

142% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

3380.77 points

144% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

67657 points

149734 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

135064 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

99979 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

128209 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

121057 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1500 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1725 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

448 GB/s

69% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

238% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

191% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

123% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

346% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

5888

206% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

184

53% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2020 September

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 3070 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 beats the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.