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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, 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
7890 points
46% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS
185 FPS
61 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS
95 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS
132 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS
75 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points
3279.67 points
108% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points
138398 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points
125425 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points
91922 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points
113801 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points
103840 points
26% 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
1545 MHz
41% 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
148.3 Gigapixels/s
111% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s
296.6 Gigatexels/s
47% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS
18.98 TFLOPS
194% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944
6144
108% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
192
4% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
96
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586
59th 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
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.

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