NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

136% significantly better overall score

2438 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

39 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

32 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

469% significantly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104422 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35111 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1506 MHz

104% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1709 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

352 GB/s

119% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 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

62.4 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

4.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

139% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

60% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

87th of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2017 December

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 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q beats the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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 GTX 1060 5GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB.