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

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

13945 points

158% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

323 FPS

199 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

174 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

241 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

136 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

6555.01 points

316% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

179169 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

164101 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

975 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1500 MHz

36% 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

896 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

80 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

144 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

360 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

7680

160% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

240

30% 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 593

25th of 593

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2025 April

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 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a slightly 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 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 5080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q at 90 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 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.