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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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

7% slightly better overall score

3375 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

55 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

42 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

0.80% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5999 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

0.03% slightly higher Blender score

558.71 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

46955 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46870 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

58341 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

0.94% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

49707 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

58341 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1468 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1468 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

320.3 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

110 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

93.95 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

234.9 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

7.52 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

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

134th of 586

141st 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

GDDR5X

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 1080 Max-Q comparison

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

The GeForce GTX 1070 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 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 1080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 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 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 1070.