NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1695MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

8576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +451%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060

7483

GeForce RTX 3090 +166%

19948

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

24

GeForce RTX 3090 +287%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

54

GeForce RTX 3090 +185%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

81

GeForce RTX 3090 +146%

200

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

26

GeForce RTX 3090 +153%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

32

GeForce RTX 3090 +146%

79

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

47

GeForce RTX 3090 +142%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

43

GeForce RTX 3090 +169%

116

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

76

GeForce RTX 3090 +148%

189

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

110

GeForce RTX 3090 +80%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

51

GeForce RTX 3090 +156%

131

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

66

GeForce RTX 3090 +175%

182

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060

146

GeForce RTX 3090 +43%

209

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

82

1920

Shading Units

10496

120

TMUs

328

48

ROPs

112

240

Tensor Cores

328

30

RT Cores

82

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA102

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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