NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 10008 MHz
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 January 2019 vs 27 June 2017
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 10008 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17150 vs 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17150 vs 17105

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 960 MHz
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1468 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1920
  • Around 2% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 6008 vs 5905
  • Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 735 vs 540
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11533 vs 11355
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5581 vs 3720
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5581 vs 3720
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 960 MHz
Boost clock speed 1468 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 1920
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6008 vs 5905
PassMark - G2D Mark 735 vs 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 11533 vs 11355
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5581 vs 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5581 vs 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3358

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
5905
6008
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
540
735
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11355
11533
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17150
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17150
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3360
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5905 6008
PassMark - G2D Mark 540 735
PassMark - G3D Mark 11355 11533
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17150 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17150 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 3360
Geekbench - OpenCL 45938

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Turing Pascal
Code name TU106B GP104
Launch date 29 January 2019 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 205 180
Price now $349.99
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 62.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz 1468 MHz
Core clock speed 960 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 1920 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 10,800 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 7,516 gflops
Texture fill rate 234.9 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 320.3 GB / s
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready