NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 80% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 16 nm
Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 120 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 8008 MHz
Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17328 vs 14345
Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17328 vs 14345

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 5 January 2018
Pipelines	2304 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 8008 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17328 vs 14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17328 vs 14345

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Around 70% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 885 MHz
Around 44% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1185 MHz

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 885 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1185 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

17328

14345

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

17328

14345

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11748
PassMark - G2D Mark	483
Geekbench - OpenCL	78123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	168.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1935.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	111.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1001.496
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17328	14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17328	14345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8055
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6841

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Pascal
Code name	TU106	GP106
Launch date	29 January 2019	5 January 2018
Place in performance rating	178	72
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1185 MHz	1709 MHz
Core clock speed	885 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	2304	1280
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Texture fill rate		136.7 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		250 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		6 GB
Memory bandwidth		192.2 GB / s