NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 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

3523 points

71% significantly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

541% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

31922 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1506 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1708 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

100% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

100% significantly 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

137th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.