NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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 3060 Max-Q

• Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
• Around 11% higher core clock speed: 817 MHz vs 735 MHz
• Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1282 MHz vs 1080 MHz
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 3072
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
• Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 80 Watt
• Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)
• Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 590 vs 583
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 21278 vs 20344
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8054 vs 3355
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 21278 vs 20344
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8054 vs 3355

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

• Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 207.4 GTexel/s vs 153.8 GTexel/s
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
• Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13849 vs 13365
• Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 94019 vs 78113
• Around 4% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8559 vs 8225

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	13365 13849
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	590 583
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	78113 94019
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21278 20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8913 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8054 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21278 20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8913 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8054 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	8225 8559

Compare specifications (specs)