GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

GP104

N18E-G1 MAX-Q TU106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

1185 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

975 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

10,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

1920

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8 GB/s

11000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.3 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

7.5

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.5

Vulkan

1.3

1.2.131

VR Ready