NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

11608 points

115% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

281 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

141 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

200 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

111 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

17631 points

119% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

4821.52 points

206% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

206390 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

181771 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

126138 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

173309 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

158661 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1440 MHz

95% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1710 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

10 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

97% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

255% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

134% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

130% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

361% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

8704

195% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

272

47% significantly 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

94th of 586

32nd 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

GDDR6X

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 3080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 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 3080 at 320 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 3080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.