GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q vs Quadro FX 470

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated134
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data31.24
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameC79TU104
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 September 2007 (17 years ago)2 April 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 cores163072
Core clock speed580 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1080 MHz
Number of transistors314 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)38 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate4.640207.4
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPS6.636 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data352.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors2x DVINo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 September 2007 2 April 2020
Chip lithography 65 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 80 Watt

FX 470 has 110.5% lower power consumption.

RTX 2080 Super Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 470 and GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 470 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q is a notebook one.


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