NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1425MHz vs 1095MHz)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +69%

10.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

7928

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +3%

8225

Blender

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

1834

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +34%

2467

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

197

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +35%

266

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

30

2944

Shading Units

3840

184

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

368

Tensor Cores

120

46

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

70.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

201.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

12.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

6.447 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

201.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA106

N18E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

12 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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