NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1095MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +364%

6.447 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1095 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2944

Shading Units

640

184

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

70.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

201.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

12.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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6.447 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

201.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GM107

N18E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

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Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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