NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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 3090

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

13991 points

142% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

333 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

169 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

241 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

134 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

19931 points

135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

5820.93 points

214% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104422 points

238123 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

204921 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

138859 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

194465 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

179816 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1400 MHz

90% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1695 MHz

73% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

352 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

165% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

337% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

204% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

197% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

493% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

10496

241% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

328

70% 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

87th of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 3090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 3090 at 350 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 3090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.