The RTX 3060 has over 150 percent of the 2060 Super's CUDA cores, along with 150 percent of the GDDR6 VRAM and a slight lead in core clocks.
Plus, comparing each card's proprietary "RTX" potential by counting tensor cores and RT cores is tricky, since the RTX 3060 has fewer cores than the RTX 2060 Super in both counts, albeit "newer" generations of each.
My first question mark came when I saw the RTX 2060 Super beat the RTX 3060 in a variety of 3DMark benchmarks.The older card enjoyed a performance lead as high as 6.5 percent in a straightforward GPU muscle test ("Fire Strike Ultra"), and it even bested the newer card, however marginally, in a head-to-head 3DMark ray-tracing showdown.
With this knowledge in hand, I grabbed an Nvidia benchmark table provided to members of the press, which aligned with most of my other tests—albeit with results that were a bit more charitable to the newer RTX 3060 than my own.Where Nvidia found that The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 (ray tracing disabled) were "dead even" between the 3060 and the 2060 Super as tested in 4K resolution, my personal, repeatable benchmarks gave the older card a lead.
Grand Theft Auto V, which runs a scant 2.9 percent faster on the 2060 Super in 4K, doesn't appear in Nvidia's provided benchmark table.