NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

3375 points

137% significantly better overall score

1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

161% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2293 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

233% significantly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17784 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21072 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22380 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 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

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112.2 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

149% significantly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

211% significantly higher texture rate

75.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

211% significantly better floating point performance

2.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

150% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2015 January

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

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 960 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 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 960.