GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs RTX 2060 Max-Q

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking210not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.55no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU106TU106B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 January 2020 (4 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19201920
Core clock speed975 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speed1185 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate142.2187.2
Floating-point processing power4.55 TFLOPS5.99 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs120120
Tensor Cores240240
Ray Tracing Cores3030

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s264.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2020 29 January 2019

RTX 2060 Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
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