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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3523 points

7964 points

126% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

186 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

95 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

133 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

75 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

3279.67 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

138398 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

125425 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

91922 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

113801 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

103840 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1110 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1545 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

43% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

148.3 Gigapixels/s

95% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

296.6 Gigatexels/s

73% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

247% 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 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2021 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 3080 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop 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 3080 Laptop also 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 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.