GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking52not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameno dataTU106B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (less than a year ago)29 January 2019 (7 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 cores401920
Core clock speedno data1005 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1560 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data187.2
Floating-point processing powerno data5.99 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30
L1 Cacheno data1.9 MB
L2 Cacheno data3 MB

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeLPDDR5x-8533GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data264.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2026 29 January 2019

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 7 years.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

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