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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 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

14177 points

163% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

342 FPS

218 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

168 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

245 FPS

161 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

135 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

19628 points

143% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

5580.42 points

254% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

235513 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

209081 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

131975 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

191836 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

173043 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1370 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1665 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

137% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

288% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

186.5 Gigapixels/s

166% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

532.8 Gigatexels/s

164% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

34.1 TFLOPS

428% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

10240

247% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

320

73% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2021 May

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 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 Ti 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.