T500 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking137not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency30.70no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date2 April 2020 (4 years ago)2 December 2020 (4 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 cores3072896
Core clock speed735 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1080 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate207.479.80
Floating-point processing power6.636 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs19256
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/s80 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent
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 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2020 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 18 Watt

RTX 2080 Super Max-Q has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and 344.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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