GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh vs RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking134not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency31.24no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU106B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 April 2020 (4 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30721920
Core clock speed735 MHz960 MHz
Boost clock speed1080 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate207.4144.0
Floating-point processing power6.636 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs192120
Tensor Cores384240
Ray Tracing Cores4830

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1353 MHz
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/s259.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1401.2.140
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2020 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 2080 Super Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 43.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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