NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop, 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
5498 points
2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS
140 FPS
16 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
95 FPS
12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
54 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points
2640.64 points
67% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points
118896 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points
106611 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points
73002 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points
97351 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points
91700 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz
1140 MHz
55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz
1680 MHz
53% significantly 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
Identical
384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W
55% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s
134.4 Gigapixels/s
91% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s
268.8 Gigatexels/s
33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS
17.2 TFLOPS
166% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944
5120
73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
15% slightly more texture mapping units
160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586
92nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs RTX A4000 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the RTX A4000 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the RTX A4000 Laptop has a significantly 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 RTX A4000 Laptop 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the RTX A4000 Laptop at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A4000 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.

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