NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

6249 points

249% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS

129 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

104 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

82 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

83 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

9899 points

200% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

861.25 points

147% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

55628 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

61295 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

85662 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

68849 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

85261 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

Identical

1480 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

1582 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

11 GiB

83% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

352 Bit

83% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

484.4 GB/s

152% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

212% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

139.2 Gigapixels/s

95% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

354.4 Gigatexels/s

199% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

199% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

3584

180% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

83% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

77th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2017 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1080 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.