NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

11608 points

456% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

281 FPS

230 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

141 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

200 FPS

168 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

111 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

17631 points

260% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

4821.52 points

841% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

206390 points

440% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

181771 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

126138 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

173309 points

329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

158661 points

305% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

1440 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

1710 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

10 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

196% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

255% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

86% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

163% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

427% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

8704

325% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

272

112% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

32nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3080 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.