GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

N18E-G2 MAX-Q TU106

GP104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1185-1305 MHz

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

885-1080 MHz

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

10,800 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

80-90 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

170.6

136.7

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

12000 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

384.0 GB/s

256.3 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

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

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

VR Ready