NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1095MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +148%

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

1344

Shading Units

2944

112

TMUs

184

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

TU104

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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