NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 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 5070

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points

13157 points

121% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

136 FPS

307 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

156 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

90 FPS

228 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

124 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

61% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5256 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

6174.82 points

233% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

188870 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

181089 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2325 MHz

216% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

2512 MHz

157% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

672 GB/s

90% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

212% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

201 Gigapixels/s

222% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

482.3 Gigatexels/s

157% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

6144

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

Identical

192

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

85th of 592

27th of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 5070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5070 at 250 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 5070 over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.