NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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, Technologies. 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 3080 Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 120 Watt

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 1 June 2018
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 780 MHz
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1301 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3719
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3719

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1138 MHz vs 780 MHz
Boost clock speed	1301 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 3719

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3719

8917

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3719

8917

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark	16423
PassMark - G2D Mark	641
Geekbench - OpenCL	101112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	26045
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3719	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	26045
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3719	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2659

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA104	Vega 10
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	1 June 2018
Place in performance rating	139	140
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz	1301 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	239.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.30 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.30 TFLOPS
Pipelines	6144
Pixel fill rate	119.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	239.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	12,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready