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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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 RTX 2080 Max Q +148%

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2944

Shading Units

1344

184

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

24

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

70.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

201.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

12.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.447 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

201.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GK104

N18E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Turing

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

7.5

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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