GeForce RTX 4060 vs 2060 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 3 years and 11 months older RTX 2060 SUPER that utilizes 34 pipelines and 2176 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
41.6
(Average)
Value Index
40.3
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2060 SUPER over RTX 4060
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Performs better (up to 29%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 7.2 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 21% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 69 vs 57 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 41% more shading units (3072 vs 2176)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
  • Features 176 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 65% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 272 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
128
78
66
47
108
68
58
36
The Witcher 3
143
117
82
44
119
99
71
37
Counter-Strike 2
208
157
111
58
174
131
92
47
Far Cry 6
105
98
76
45
94
82
65
35
Hogwarts Legacy
78
65
47
26
64
52
38
21
CoD: Modern Warfare III
98
90
64
43
79
70
51
31
Ghost of Tsushima
73
61
45
27
60
47
37
22
Cyberpunk 2077
82
75
43
22
66
61
36
14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
128
119
85
46
102
93
68
34
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 96
1080p Ultra 96 78
1440p Ultra 69 57
4K Ultra 40 31
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 4060 +29%
10683
Time Spy 10615 8729
Solar Bay 49340 38528
Port Royal 6054 5061
Fire Strike 28540 22540
Wild Life Extreme 20610 17535
Night Raid 121368 92217
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4060 +16%
106633
Background Blur 186.9 img/sec 155.7 img/sec
Face Detection 112.7 img/sec 93.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.92 Gpixels/sec 3.81 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.16 Gpixels/sec 4.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.94 Gpixels/sec 4.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.34 Gpixels/sec 1.09 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 446.2 Gpixels/sec 381.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14935.1 FPS 10550.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 4060 +76%
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 +18%
19485
G2D Mark 1036 857
DirectX 11 174 FPS 132 FPS
DirectX 12 76 FPS 61 FPS
GPU Compute 9150 Ops/s 6668 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 28684 & 12636 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 +43%
3132.26
2186.61
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2092 & 1126 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4060 +29%
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 +21%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 +48%
14234
Image Classification (SP) 7696 5952
Image Segmentation (HP) 13706 13581
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23289 12282
Face Detection (HP) 31126 27779
Pose Estimation (Q) 78361 53249
Text Classification (SP) 3315 2087
Machine Translation (HP) 3491 3660
Object Detection (SP) 9386 6977
Depth Estimation (Q) 36778 23707
Style Transfer (SP) 148120 112439
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 and 2060 SUPER

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 18, 2023 July 9, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $399
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 TU106
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700 XT -
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 14600K or above - Intel Core i5 9600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (54th and 63rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1830 MHz 1470 MHz
Boost Clock 2460 MHz 1650 MHz
Shading Units 3072 2176
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 136
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 34
Tensor Cores 96 272
Ray-tracing Cores 24 34
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 24MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118 GPixel/s 106 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236 GTexel/s 224 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 +110%
15.1 TFLOPS
7.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 115 W 175 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 22.47 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock - 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
272 GB/s
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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