RTX 2000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA104AD107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores61443072
Core clock speed780 MHz1635 MHz
Boost clock speed1245 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate239.0203.0
Floating-point processing power15.3 TFLOPS12.99 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs19296
Tensor Cores19296
Ray Tracing Cores4824

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 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 amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s256.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 2000 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 2 years, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q and RTX 2000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX 2000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
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