NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

9% slightly better overall score

5276 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

61 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

88 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

48 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

8766 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

2317.27 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104422 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

99213 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

96416 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

74845 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

89510 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

86221 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1320 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1777 MHz

82% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

352 GB/s

360 GB/s

2% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

112% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

85.3 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

199 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

112% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

3584

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

87th of 586

98th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2021 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 SUPER Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.