NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

33119 points

475% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

787 FPS

655 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

382 FPS

303 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

567 FPS

479 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

318 FPS

262 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

9236 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

11723.75 points

533% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

318192 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

273214 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2235 MHz

204% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

2520 MHz

158% 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

1010 GB/s

186% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

462% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

675% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

589% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1278% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

16384

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

512

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

87th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2022 October

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 4090 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 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 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.