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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

18% slightly better overall score

4534 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

2352.59 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

98709 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

92420 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

71210 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

82804 points

0.57% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

900 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1703 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

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

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

80 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

69% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

3840

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

53% significantly more texture mapping units

120

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

111th 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 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 Laptop 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 2080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.