NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q sales 4 January 2021. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 80 Watt.

We have no data on GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameGN20-E7 GA104
Market segmentLaptop
Release date4 January 2021 (3 years old)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed780 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1245 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors17,400 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate239.0of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed6000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


We have no data on GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q benchmark results.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q is Radeon RX 7600M.

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