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

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

8076 points

49% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

206 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

101 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

139 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

80 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

3504.37 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

148511 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

136008 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

90751 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

118065 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

107903 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

810 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1260 MHz

15% 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

512 GB/s

33% 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

121 Gigapixels/s

72% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

292.3 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

18.71 TFLOPS

190% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

7424

152% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

232

26% slightly 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

55th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 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 3080 Ti Laptop benchmarks

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

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

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop at 115 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 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.