NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 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

42789 points

1117% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

1019 FPS

944 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

503 FPS

451 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

740 FPS

684 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

425 FPS

389 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

14480 points

157% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

14992.38 points

984% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

383325 points

490% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

380401 points

538% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

2017 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2407 MHz

103% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

32 GiB

433% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

512 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

784% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

644% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

21760

1033% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

680

466% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

266% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 5090 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also 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 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 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 5090 at 575 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 5090 is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.