GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop vs 2060 Mobile
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
TU106 (N18E-G1-B)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 8 GB with 26 pipelines and 3328 shaders against the 6 years and 4 months older RTX 2060 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 3.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (16.6 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 93% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 77 vs 40 FPS
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
- Features 136 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 135 86 75 56 |
88 52 42 25 |
| The Witcher 3 | 154 129 89 48 |
85 65 45 22 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 227 169 125 69 |
134 92 68 28 |
| Far Cry 6 | 114 103 82 46 |
71 62 45 24 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 89 74 54 27 |
45 38 27 13 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 107 100 71 48 |
56 48 34 20 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 82 65 49 29 |
41 31 26 13 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 92 81 51 23 |
45 40 22 10 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 144 128 96 50 |
75 71 47 26 |
| 1080p High | 127 | 71 |
| 1080p Ultra | 104 | 55 |
| 1440p Ultra | 77 | 40 |
| 4K Ultra | 44 | 20 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12009 | 5958 |
| Solar Bay | 52855 | 25742 |
| Port Royal | 7453 | 3328 |
| Fire Strike | 31609 | 15852 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 21631 | 11600 |
| Night Raid | 115260 | 62045 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 190.8 img/sec | 150.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 115.9 img/sec | 75.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.17 Gpixels/sec | 2.83 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.28 Gpixels/sec | 3.68 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.1 Gpixels/sec | 4.08 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.32 Gpixels/sec | 0.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 523.3 Gpixels/sec | 257.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 16169.3 FPS | 9069.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 844 | 540 |
| DirectX 11 | 162 FPS | 96 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 79 FPS | 39 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6046 Ops/s | 3992 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | GeekBench | 132783 |
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Steel Nomad Light | 13919 |
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-21 (WOLF) | GeekBench | 84403 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 7525 | 4450 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 23623 | 9120 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 19973 | 9180 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 41164 | 18866 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 77589 | 41027 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2880 | 1741 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5811 | 2269 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9966 | 4980 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 37206 | 18044 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 136961 | 91554 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and 2060 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 14, 2025 | January 29, 2019 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Turing |
| GPU Codename | GB206 | TU106 (N18E-G1-B) |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above | - Intel Core i7 10750H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (19th and 90th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 952-1455 MHz (configurable) | 960 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1455-2497 MHz (configurable) | 1175-1200 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 3328 | 1920 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 104 | 120 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 26 | 30 |
| Tensor Cores | 104 | 240 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 26 | 30 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 70-120 GPixel/s | 56-58 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 151-260 GTexel/s | 141-144 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 45-115 W (configurable) | 80-115 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 181 mm² | 445 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 21.9 billion | 10.8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.99 MTr/mm² | 24.27 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 89°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 24000 Mbps | 11000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 12.0 | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 1.4 |
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