NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/960/1060 / RTX 2060 Linux Gaming & Compute Performance

While the GPU cooling performance will obviously vary based upon the particular graphics card model/AIB, for those curious about the cards under test... The GTX 1060 and RTX 2060 both operated cooler than the GTX 760 reference card and EVGA GTX 960. Between the GTX 1060 and RTX 2060 Founder's Edition cards, the average temperature was about the same while the peak temperature on the RTX 2060 was 72 degrees compared to 75 degrees. This thermal data was over the course of all the benchmarks carried out.

Here is a look at the AC system power consumption of this Core i9 9900K system with the various graphics cards tested. The average total system power draw throughout all of these benchmarks was 190 Watts with the RTX 2060, a 25% increase compared to the GTX 1060 at 151 Watts. But even with that elevated power use, in effectively all the benchmarks the RTX 2060 Turing delivered superior performance-per-Watt over the predecessors.

For comparing these four generations of NVIDIA graphics cards, here is a look at the harmonic mean of all the frame-rate gaming benchmarks carried out on the four graphics cards. Going from the GTX 760 to GTX 960 represented a 27% improvement on average, the GTX 960 to GTX 1060 yielded a 76% improvement, and moving from the GTX 1060 to the new RTX 2060 yielded an additional 53% improvement.

For another look at the data and also encompassing the GPU OpenCL/CUDA compute performance, here is a look at the geometric mean of all the performance data collected from every test carried out on the four graphics cards. From this perspective going from the GTX 760 to GTX 960 yielded a 39% improvement, GTX 960 to GTX 1060 increased by 68%, and moving to this new $349 Turing graphics card was a 50% improvement.

Lastly is a meta performance-per-Watt based upon the average power consumption throughout all of the tests carried out and the geometric mean of all the performance benchmarks. This shows the power efficiency of the RTX 2060 to be approximately 20% better than the GTX 1060 through the wide range of benchmarks carried out for this comparison.

See more benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 2060 in our Linux review.