NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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

5387 points

8113 points

50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

197 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

96 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

140 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

77 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

13651 points

69% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

3380.77 points

114% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

149734 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

135064 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

99979 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

128209 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

121057 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1500 MHz

104% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1725 MHz

57% 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

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

144% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

136% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

215% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

5888

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

Identical

184

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

94th of 586

53rd 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

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 3070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.