NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 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

5072 points
13991 points
175% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS
333 FPS
227 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

75 FPS
169 FPS
94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS
241 FPS
166 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS
134 FPS
78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8739 points
19931 points
128% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2209.96 points
5820.93 points
163% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

95114 points
238123 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85216 points
204921 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73672 points
138859 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90113 points
194465 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85182 points
179816 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1407 MHz
0.50% slightly higher core clock speed
1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1650 MHz
1695 MHz
2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
24 GiB
200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
936.2 GB/s
108% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W
100% significantly lower TDP
350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

105.6 Gigapixels/s
189.8 Gigapixels/s
79% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.4 Gigatexels/s
556 Gigatexels/s
147% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.18 TFLOPS
35.58 TFLOPS
395% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2176
10496
382% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

136
328
141% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
112
75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

100th of 586
25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 3090 comparison

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

The GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 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 3090 has a slightly 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 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 over the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER.

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