NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 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

23634 points

338% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

549 FPS

425 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

276 FPS

206 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

403 FPS

319 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

224 FPS

168 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

8762 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

9133.30 points

480% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

267906 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

257198 points

212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2295 MHz

212% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

2617 MHz

138% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

960 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

300% significantly lower TDP

360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

293.1 Gigapixels/s

318% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

879.3 Gigatexels/s

336% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

56.28 TFLOPS

772% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

10752

265% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

336

82% 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 593

4th of 593

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 5080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 5080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.