NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 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

43% significantly better overall score

3375 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

55 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

42 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5999 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points

192% significantly higher Blender score

558.71 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

46955 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46870 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58341 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

49707 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

58341 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

1468 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1468 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

4% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

110 W

45% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

93.95 Gigapixels/s

16% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

234.9 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

7.52 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586

141st 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

GDDR5X

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 1080 Max-Q specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 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 2060 has a slightly 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 GTX 1080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.