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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design is a laptop graphics processor, built on the Turing architecture. It has 8 GB of video memory and a 90 W board power rating. It scores 12,589 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.

TuringMobile

4/10 key specs recorded · 20 facts

Depth: 29 recorded fields, 3 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified July 25, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark. Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

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Shading units

n/a

Memory

8 GB

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

90 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design scores 12,589 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 91.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #238), measured across 656 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 496.

PassMark G3D Mark

12,589

Rank #238
Faster than 91.5% of 2,658 GPUs
656 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 167 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 85.8% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 97 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 89.7% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 112 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 86.4% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 47 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 78.3% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 4,476 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 81.3% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design averages DirectX 9 167 fps, DirectX 10 97 fps, DirectX 11 112 fps, DirectX 12 47 fps and GPU Compute 4,476 ops/s, across 656 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 8 GB

Core clock 735 MHz

Memory clock 12000 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 90 W

First benchmarked 2019-02-01

Samples 656

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 8 GB of memory, a core clock of 735 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2019-02-01. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Turing

Codename Not recorded

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Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design is based on the Turing architecture.

Memory

Size 8 GB

Type Not recorded

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design is equipped with 8 GB of memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design has a board power rating of 90 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 90 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

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Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched Not recorded

Launch price Not recorded

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Segment Laptop

Series GeForce RTX 20 Series

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 12,589

PassMark G2D 496

Rank #238

Samples 656

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 7.5

Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design has 3 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

Supported: Hardware ray tracing 1st Generation

Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.

Not listed (3)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design supports Hardware ray tracing (1st Generation) under Rendering.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 7.5

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Supported: Tensor cores 2nd Generation

NVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.

Not listed (1)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design supports CUDA (Compute capability 7.5) and Tensor cores (2nd Generation) under Compute and AI.

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design (Mobile).

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design (Mobile)

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design have?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design has 8 GB of video memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design has a board power rating of 90 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design scores 12,589 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 91.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #238. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 47 fps.