NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 120 Watt
Launch date 2 Apr 2020 vs 1 June 2018
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1301 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • Around 16% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1138 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 1301 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 8912

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8912
8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8912
8917
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark 13828
PassMark - G2D Mark 578
Geekbench - OpenCL 93962
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8912 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8912 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8567

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 5.0
Code name TU104B Vega 10
Launch date 2 Apr 2020 1 June 2018
Place in performance rating 139 140
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1080 MHz 1301 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 207.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 13.27 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.636 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072
Pixel fill rate 69.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 207.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 13600 million 12,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 352.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective) 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6