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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 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

7102 points

31% slightly better overall score

5387 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

37 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

124 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

70 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

84 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8047 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

1574.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

104025 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

87150 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

65188 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

90092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82332 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

1095 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

16% slightly 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

201.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

56% significantly better floating point performance

6.45 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

Identical

2944

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

Identical

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th 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 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q specs and performance

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

The GeForce RTX 2080 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 2080 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.