Rare GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q launches amidst the storm of AMD Renoir announcements

Nvidia launched its Turing family of Max-Q GPUs last year consisting of the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q, GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q, RTX 2070 Max-Q, and the RTX 2080 Max-Q. Curiously missing from the lineup was the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q for seemingly no apparent reason. Perhaps Nvidia wanted to push users into buying the full RTX 2060 instead, but in either case, the RTX 2060 Max-Q is finally here.

The first and so far only laptop to sport the RTX 2060 Max-Q is the 14-inch Asus Zephyrus G14. The biggest difference between it and the other RTX 2060 GPUs is its slower memory speed for slower bandwidth overall. In practice, however, the RTX 2060 Max-Q holds no surprises as it performs exactly where it's supposed to be: in between that of the standard GTX 1660 Ti mobile and RTX 2060 mobile according to 3DMark benchmarks. It's a narrow margin, but at least owners can exploit the AI and RT cores of the RTX 2060 Max-Q which are otherwise absent on the GTX 1660 Ti.

See our page on the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q to for more technical information and benchmarks.