GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2060 (27/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce

GeForce RTX 2060

27/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 33.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 25.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 19777 87569
Night Raid 85132 206648
Port Royal 4133 38202
Solar Bay 34157 236689
Time Spy 7564 46873
Wild Life Extreme 15551 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 86 299
1080p Ultra 69 254
1440p Ultra 50 207
4K Ultra 28 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 69594430 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 1571178241 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 58523213 26123316077
Far Cry 6 84745729 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 99624935 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 53423018 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 59473315 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 92855833 329302238128
The Witcher 3 107866234 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 20909 85572
Face Detection (HP) 24511 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 5453 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 12449 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11020 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3360 8184
Object Detection (SP) 6343 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 47746 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 101870 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2000 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 144.4 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.25 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 75.2 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.21 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.08 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8559.4 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 354.4 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU106 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9600Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 15, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1365 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1680 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 30 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 30 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 1920 21760
Tensor Cores 240 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 120 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 192-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 112 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 53 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 743 1410
GPU Compute 5427 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 445 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 160 W 575 W
Transistor Count 10 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 22.47 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 81 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 202 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-03-15(MrRayeen) GeekBench —

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