NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5387 points

2% slightly better overall score

5276 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

126 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

61 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

88 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

48 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

8766 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

2317.27 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

99213 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

96416 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

74845 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

0.65% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

89510 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

86221 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1320 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1777 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

88% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

85.3 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

97% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

3584

21% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

64% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

98th of 586

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 2080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.