NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 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

4831 points

170% significantly better overall score

1789 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

25 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

128% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3292 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points

371% significantly higher Blender score

347.28 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

28312 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29934 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

32085 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

32446 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

29492 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

1480 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1480 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

74% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

80 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

71.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

70% significantly higher texture rate

118.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

70% significantly better floating point performance

3.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

49% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586

222nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 2060 has a slightly 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2060 over the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.