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

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

3644 points

74% significantly better overall score

2086 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

51 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

32 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

27 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4894 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

512.01 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

38193 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39907 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41167 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40339 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

39132 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1379 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

1379 MHz

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

Identical

256.30 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

90 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

88.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

176.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

5.65 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2048

6% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

128

6% 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

134th of 586

204th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 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 GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.