NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

97
Place in performance rating
40
no data
Value for money (0-100)
1.1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TU106B
Code name
GA106
Laptop
Type
Laptop
6 January 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
04 January 2021
no data
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$1311
Price now
no data
10.36
Value for money
N18E-G2 MAX-Q TU106
GPU code name
Laptop
Market segment

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2304
Pipelines
3840
885-1080 MHz
Core clock speed
817 MHz
1185 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
10,800 million
Transistor count
13,250 million
12 nm
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
80 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100 W
170.6
Texture fill rate
153.8 GTexel/s
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Floating-point performance
9.846 TFLOPS
2304
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1185-1305 MHz
Boost clock speed
10,800 million
Number of transistors
80 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
None
Supplementary power connectors
large
Laptop size

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop can be seen in this section.

GDDR6
Memory type
GDDR6
8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
192 bit
12000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective
384.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
+
G-SYNC support

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is the additional functionality.

+
VR Ready
+
Multi Monitor
7.5
CUDA

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 Ultimate (12_1)
DirectX
4.6
OpenGL
1.2.131
Vulkan
6.5
Shader Model
1.2
OpenCL
no data
DirectX 11.2
DirectX 12.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 238.2 152.6 91.4 72 62.7 26.3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 173 150 132 127 85.3 55.2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Less power consumption (80 Watt vs 100 W)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 6 GB)

More memory bandwidth (384.0 GB/s vs 288.0 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

More pipelines (3840 vs 2304)

Finer manufacturing process technology (8 nm vs 12 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q .

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop performance benchmarks comparison

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