NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q
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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super with Max-Q design is the power saving variant of the mobile GeForce RTX 2070 Super with reduced clock speeds, performance and of course power consumption. It is intended for thin gaming laptops. It is based on the same TU104-725-A1 chip with 2,560 shaders, 8 GB GDDR6 memory and a 256 Bit memory bus. Currently we know of three variants with a TGP of 80, 85 and 90 Watt, base clock speeds of 930, 1005, and 1080 MHz, and turbo clock speeds of 1155, 1230 and 1290 MHz. The mobile variant for comparison is rated at 115 W and 1140 - 1380 MHz.
With the refresh, Nvidia also reworked the Max-Q technologies for more efficiency. Low Voltage GDDR6 (lower clocked but more headroom for the GPU) and improved regulator efficiency should improve the performance per Watt. Two new optional features can also be implemented by the OEM. Max-Q Dynamic Boost is able to shift power from the CPU to the GPU on a per frame basis to increase overall performance. Furthermore, the laptop manufacturer can also implement Advanced Optimus with a dynamic display switch (hardware) to enable Optimus, G-SYNC and high refresh rate displays (up to 4K 120 Hz).
NVIDIA manufacturers the TU104 chip on a 12 nm FinFET process and includes features like Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and Real-Time Ray Tracing (RTRT), which should combine to create more realistic lighting effects than older GPUs based on the company's Pascal architecture (if the games supports it). The RTX 2070 Super Max-Q is also DisplayPort 1.4 ready, while there is also support for HDMI 2.0b, HDR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP) and H.265 video en/decoding (PlayReady 3.0).
Performance
Due to the lower clock rates, the Max-Q variant is clearly slower than the mobile RTX 2070 Super. The difference depends on the used variant, where the 90 W version is only slightly slower. Therefore, the performance should be sufficient for maximum detail settings at a QHD resolution. With raytracing enabled, you may have to reduce settings or resolution. Less demanding games can be easily played in 4k.
The power consumption of the card is between 80 - 90 Watt TGP and therefore clearly lower than the RTX 2070 Super Mobile (115 Watt).
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
► remove from comparison The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 for desktops is a fast mid range graphics card in the GeForce Turing line-up. It uses a TU106 chip with 1,920 shader, 45 ROPs, 120 TMUs, 240 KI-cores and a 192 Bit memory bus that connects 6 GB of GDDR6 (clocked at 7 GHz leading to 14 GHz effective and 336 GB/s).
The mobile variant of the RTX 2060 bears the same name, but offers considerable lower clock speeds (see our RTX 2060 laptop page).
NVIDIA manufacturers the TU106 chip on a 12 nm FinFET process and includes features like Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and Real-Time Ray Tracing (RTRT), which should combine to create more realistic lighting effects than older GPUs based on the company's Pascal architecture (if the games supports it). The RTX 2060 is also DisplayPort 1.4 ready, while there is also support for HDMI 2.0b, HDR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP) and H.265 video en/decoding (PlayReady 3.0).
The average RTX 2060 should be on par with a Radeon RX Vega 64 and between the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 / 1070 Ti. Therefore, the RTX 2060 is most suited for 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 in demanding games.
NVIDIA specifies that the RTX 2060 should consume a maximum of 160 W and therefore clearly higher than the old GTX 1060 rated at 120 Watt.
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) |
Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
GeForce RTX 2000 Series | | |
Codename | N18E-G2R | Turing TU106 |
Architecture | Turing | Turing |
Pipelines | 2560 - unified | 1920 - unified |
Core Speed | 930 - 1155 (Boost) MHz | 1320 - 1620 (Boost) MHz |
Memory Speed | 11000 MHz | 14000 MHz |
Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit | 192 Bit |
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
Max. Amount of Memory | 8192 MB | 6144 MB |
Shared Memory | no | no |
DirectX | DirectX 12_1 | DirectX 12_1, Shader 6.4 |
technology | 12 nm | 12 nm |
Features | DLSS, Raytraycing, VR Ready, G-SYNC, Vulkan, Multi Monitor, 550 Watt system power recommended | DLSS, Raytraycing, VR Ready, G-SYNC, Vulkan, Multi Monitor |
Notebook Size | large | |
Date of Announcement | 02.04.2020 | 06.01.2019 |
Benchmarks
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q
35 pt (36%)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (Desktop) 176%
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
53.1 pt (55%)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (Desktop) 82%
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
min: 7272 avg: 7650 median: 7633 (43%) max: 8066 Points
7878 Points (44%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 7084 avg: 7479 median: 7389 (38%) max: 7891 Points
7732 Points (40%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
min: 461097 avg: 461649 median: 461648 (73%) max: 462200 Points
424149 Points (67%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Graphics
305160 Points (42%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 38593 avg: 45672 median: 47119 (63%) max: 49917 Points
44523 Points (59%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 65295 avg: 117307 median: 126747 (63%) max: 134954 Points
107083 Points (53%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 16736 avg: 18224 median: 18534 (48%) max: 18947 Points
16267 Points (42%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 18559 avg: 20450 median: 20914 (42%) max: 21446 Points
19338 Points (39%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics
66977 Points (9%)
333335 Points (44%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 21735 avg: 23259 median: 23833 (62%) max: 24383 Points
min: 22018 avg: 22982 median: 22982 (59%) max: 23946 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 24973 avg: 27422 median: 27733 (47%) max: 28900 Points
min: 26413 avg: 27163 median: 27162.5 (46%) max: 27912 Points
3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
65101 Points (64%)
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 60454 Points (59%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
69136 Points (63%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 60862 Points (56%)
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
125706 Points (66%)
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
34679 Points (51%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q 43406 Points (81%)
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 33727 Points (63%)
Unigine Valley 1.0 - Unigine Valley 1.0 DX
91.2 fps (47%)
SPECviewperf 12
specvp12 sw-03 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
57.6 fps (25%)
specvp12 snx-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
8.4 fps (3%)
specvp12 showcase-01 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
101 fps (43%)
specvp12 mediacal-01 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01
35.2 fps (32%)
specvp12 maya-04 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
127 fps (54%)
specvp12 energy-01 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
9.2 fps (32%)
specvp12 creo-01 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
44.5 fps (25%)
specvp12 catia-04 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
74.8 fps (28%)
specvp12 3dsmax-05 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05
184 fps (56%)
SPECviewperf 13 specvp13 sw-04 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 sw-04
91.3 fps (42%)
specvp13 sw-04 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 83.4 fps (38%)
specvp13 snx-03 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 snx-03
20.1 fps (4%)
specvp13 snx-03 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 15 fps (3%)
specvp13 showcase-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 showcase-02
94.1 fps (39%)
specvp13 showcase-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 102 fps (42%)
specvp13 medical-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 medical-02
52.6 fps (39%)
specvp13 medical-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 49.1 fps (37%)
specvp13 maya-05 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 maya-05
222 fps (47%)
specvp13 maya-05 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 247 fps (53%)
specvp13 energy-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 energy-02
18.5 fps (32%)
specvp13 energy-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 7.6 fps (13%)
specvp13 creo-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 creo-02
172 fps (49%)
specvp13 creo-02 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 170 fps (48%)
specvp13 catia-05 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 catia-05
129 fps (30%)
specvp13 catia-05 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 108 fps (25%)
specvp13 3dsmax-06 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 3dsmax-06
181 fps (54%)
specvp13 3dsmax-06 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) 184 fps (55%)
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
6835 (32%)
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
88.5 fps (39%)
Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 129 avg: 139 median: 135.9 (38%) max: 157 fps
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
99.6 % (100%)
GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
349 fps (80%)
GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Onscreen
60 fps (23%)
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
2586 Samples/s (26%)
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
5655 Samples/s (20%)
ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
14015 (30%)
14375 (31%)
Power Consumption - Furmark Stress Test Power Consumption - external Monitor *
295 Watt (54%)
Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
153 Watt (26%)
289 Watt (48%)
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 Power Consumption *
min: 144 avg: 157 median: 155.5 (34%) max: 176 Watt
Clock Speed - GPU Clock Witcher 3 ultra
min: 1320 avg: 1363 median: 1350 (70%) max: 1440 MHz
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q → 100% n=23
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) → 109% n=23
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
135.7 fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
102.6 fps
96%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
98.1 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
49.4 fps, P0.1:
54.4 fps, P1:
64.7 fps, max:
162 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
101.6 fps
94%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
95.5 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
16.7 fps, P0.1:
55.2 fps, P1:
61.8 fps, max:
167 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
86.1 fps
93%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
80.5 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
42.4 fps, P0.1:
47.5 fps, P1:
50.8 fps, max:
148 fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
54.2 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
28.4 fps, P0.1:
34.5 fps, P1:
36.8 fps, max:
105 fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
27.8 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
15.3 fps, P0.1:
15.5 fps, P1:
16.3 fps, max:
79.5 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
163.7 fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
93.6 fps
102%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
95.4 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
53.1 fps, P0.1:
66 fps, P1:
75.6 fps, max:
321 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
86.2 fps
94%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
80.7 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
41.9 fps, P0.1:
60.2 fps, P1:
64.2 fps, max:
278 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
77.4 fps
87%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
67.1 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
28 fps, P0.1:
46.2 fps, P1:
51.4 fps, max:
229 fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
46.9 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
26.3 fps, P0.1:
35 fps, P1:
38.3 fps, max:
112 fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
21.5 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
15.7 fps, P0.1:
16.2 fps, P1:
16.9 fps, max:
28.9 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
118 fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
81 fps
98%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
79 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
P0.1:
44 fpsP1:
fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
70 fps
91%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
64 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
P0.1:
9 fpsP1:
fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
60 fps
92%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
55 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
P0.1:
38 fpsP1:
fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
42 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
P0.1:
26 fpsP1:
fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
24 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
P0.1:
17 fpsP1:
fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
160 fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
95.6 fps
90%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
86 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
20.7 fps, P0.1:
63.1 fps, P1:
73.7 fps, max:
147.6 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
78.2 fps
88%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
68.9 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
20.1 fps, P0.1:
50.2 fps, P1:
60.4 fps, max:
122.5 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
65.1 fps
62%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
40.6 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
19.8 fps, P0.1:
31 fps, P1:
33.7 fps, max:
50.9 fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
35.2 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
19.4 fps, P0.1:
27.4 fps, P1:
29.7 fps, max:
42.9 fps
fps
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
26.4 [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
18.8 fps, P0.1:
19.8 fps, P1:
22.7 fps, max:
30.6 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
100 fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
96 fps
105%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
101 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
24.46 fps, P1:
76.42 fps, max:
146.37 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
84 fps
104%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
87.4 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
31.57 fps, P1:
65.79 fps, max:
133.96 fps
fps
100%
GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q:
59 fps
77%
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop):
45.3 fps [X] MSI GeForce RTX 2060Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
min:
14.9 fps, P1:
18.44 fps, max:
121.44 fps