NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2520MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

14464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1180%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

6.451 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +388%

36549

GeForce RTX 2060

7486

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +670%

185

GeForce RTX 2060

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +418%

280

GeForce RTX 2060

54

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +275%

304

GeForce RTX 2060

81

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +261%

94

GeForce RTX 2060

26

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +478%

185

GeForce RTX 2060

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +314%

195

GeForce RTX 2060

47

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +332%

186

GeForce RTX 2060

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +167%

203

GeForce RTX 2060

76

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +93%

213

GeForce RTX 2060

110

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +227%

167

GeForce RTX 2060

51

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +180%

185

GeForce RTX 2060

66

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +27%

186

GeForce RTX 2060

146

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1920

512

TMUs

120

176

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

240

128

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

TU106

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

160W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

8.9

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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