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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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	13843
PassMark - G2D Mark	580
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	140	141
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