NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

10078 points

87% significantly better overall score

5387 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

217 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

124 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

153 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

70 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

153 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

84 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

115 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14639 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8047 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3056.90 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

1574.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

176681 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

104025 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145322 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

87150 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

132328 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

65188 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145114 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

90092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

134471 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82332 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1350 MHz

83% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

1095 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

37% slightly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

616 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

90 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

136 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

420.2 Gigatexels/s

108% significantly higher texture rate

201.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.45 TFLOPS

108% significantly better floating point performance

6.45 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4352

47% significantly more shading units

2944

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

47% significantly more texture mapping units

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

37% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

37th of 586

94th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2019 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 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q benchmarks

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

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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 2080 Ti also has a slightly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 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 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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 2080 Ti over the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.