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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 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 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

26% slightly better overall score

4534 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

2352.59 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104422 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

98709 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

92420 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

71210 points

0.98% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

0.40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

900 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1703 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

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

4% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

82% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

3840

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

60% significantly more texture mapping units

120

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

111th 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 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.