NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

11608 points

229% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

281 FPS

205 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

141 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

200 FPS

145 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

111 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

17631 points

153% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

4821.52 points

164% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

206390 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

181771 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

126138 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

173309 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

158661 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1440 MHz

62% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1710 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

10 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

97% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

300% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

116% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

172% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

445% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

8704

277% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

272

88% significantly 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

32nd 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

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 3080 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3080 has a significantly 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 3080 also has a significantly 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, the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 3080 is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.