NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

2086 points

4905 points

135% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

94 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

79 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

62 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

64 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

7547 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

606.98 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

51531 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

54640 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

66552 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

60120 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

65170 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

1607 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

1733 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

320.3 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

100% significantly lower TDP

180 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

110.9 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

277.3 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

8.87 TFLOPS

57% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2560

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

104th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2016 May

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 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.