NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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

13991 points

298% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

333 FPS

258 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

169 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

241 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

134 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

19931 points

254% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

5820.93 points

320% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

67657 points

238123 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

204921 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

138859 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

194465 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

179816 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1400 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1695 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

24 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

254% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

438% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

233% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

290% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

681% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

10496

446% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

328

173% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

25th 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

GDDR6X

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 3090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 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 RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.