NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3523 points

4534 points

28% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

112 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

57 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

78 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

44 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

2352.59 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

98709 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

92420 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

71210 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

84300 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

82804 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

900 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1703 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

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

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

10% slightly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

0.23% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

100% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3840

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

120

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

111th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

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 RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.