NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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

33119 points

842% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

787 FPS

711 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

382 FPS

330 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

567 FPS

511 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

318 FPS

282 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

9236 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

11723.75 points

747% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

318192 points

390% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

273214 points

358% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

2235 MHz

129% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2520 MHz

112% 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

1010 GB/s

282% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

592% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

750% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

807% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1714% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

16384

753% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

512

326% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2022 October

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 4090 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.