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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 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. 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

• Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
• Around 80% higher core clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 735 MHz
• Around 65% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1080 MHz
• Around 17% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 3072
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
• Around 36% higher memory clock speed: 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective) vs 1375 MHz (11000 MHz effective)
• Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17107 vs 13796
• Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 582
• Around 7% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88335 vs 82601
• Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 22495 vs 20344
• Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 22495 vs 20344
• Around 2% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8755 vs 8579

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

• Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 207.4 GTexel/s vs 199.0 GTexel/s
• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 170 Watt
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8912 vs 3717
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8912 vs 3717

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	17107 13796
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	971 582
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	88335 82601
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22495 20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3717 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22495 20344
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3717 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	8755 8579

Compare specifications (specs)