NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1185MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +202%

4.55 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960M

1231

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +353%

5584

Blender

GeForce GTX 960M

185

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +667%

1420

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960M

32

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +356%

146

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

640

Shading Units

1920

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

TU106

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

Maxwell

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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