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

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated115
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.94
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU106BTU104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 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 cores19203072
Core clock speed960 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate144.0299.5
Floating-point processing power4.608 TFLOPS9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs120192
Tensor Cores240384
Ray Tracing Cores3048

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1353 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth259.8 GB/s448.0 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 Readyno 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 29 January 2019 2 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 150 Watt

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh has 30.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 2080 Super Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

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


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