NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, 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

6694 points

90% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

161 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

77 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

113 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

61 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

201% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

3124.65 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

101567 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

99687 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1925 MHz

117% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2075 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

150% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

75% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

123% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

347% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5888

155% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

184

27% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2023 May

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 4060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 4060 over the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.