NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 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

26% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

21 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

66% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2939 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

21520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 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

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

11% slightly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

72.13 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

63% significantly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

33% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

33% 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

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 980M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 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 1070 Max-Q 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, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 980M.