NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3514 points

13945 points

296% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

75 FPS

323 FPS

247 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

174 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

241 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

136 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

6555.01 points

374% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

179169 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

164101 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

Identical

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1500 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

896 GB/s

239% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

144 Gigapixels/s

153% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

360 Gigatexels/s

153% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

7680

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

240

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 597

25th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q and the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.