NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

0.69% slightly better overall score

5350 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

134 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

92 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

50 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

3318.42 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

0.14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

89964 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

90182 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1545 MHz

110% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1890 MHz

72% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

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

15% slightly higher pixel rate

60.48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

181.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

11.61 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

3072

4% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

91% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

96th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2023 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 4060 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 Laptop also has a significantly 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 4060 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 2080 Max-Q over the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop.