NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3523 points

5387 points

52% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

124 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

70 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

84 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

56 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

8047 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

1574.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

104025 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

87150 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

65188 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

90092 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

82332 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1095 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

Identical

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

12% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

201.5 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

6.45 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2944

27% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

184

27% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

94th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.