NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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

8113 points

130% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

197 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

96 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

140 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

77 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

13651 points

96% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

3380.77 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

149734 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

135064 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

99979 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

128209 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

121057 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1500 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1725 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

175% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

118% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

86% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

271% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5888

155% significantly 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2020 September

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 3070 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 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 3070 is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.