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

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

8845 points

151% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

210 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

104 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

151 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

83 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

14857 points

113% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

3754.04 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

165866 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

147200 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

104828 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

138062 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

131952 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1575 MHz

77% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1770 MHz

49% 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

608.3 GB/s

58% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

262% significantly lower TDP

290 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

124% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

99% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

298% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

6144

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

192

33% 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

45th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti over the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.