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

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

5980 points

11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

151 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

75 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

104 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

57 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

3004.43 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

122041 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

111833 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

84673 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

102733 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

96388 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1110 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1560 MHz

42% 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

90 W

27% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

124.8 Gigapixels/s

78% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

249.6 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

15.97 TFLOPS

147% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

5120

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 597

82nd 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 2080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop 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 3070 Laptop also has a slightly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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