NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

12174 points

111% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

289 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

141 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

206 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

114 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

119% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

5402.96 points

191% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

168368 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

158623 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2190 MHz

197% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

2430 MHz

149% 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

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 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

274% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

211% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

190% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

481% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

7168

133% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

224

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2023 April

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 4070 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.