NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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

3375 points

37% slightly better overall score

2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

377.89 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

34034 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37241 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

36494 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

35697 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1506 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1709 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

9% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

71% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

86% significantly better floating point performance

4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

100% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 1060 6GB 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.