NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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

3839 points

13% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

76 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

58 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

52 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

47 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

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

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

127% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

2816

10% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

176

10% slightly 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

141st of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2015 June

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 980 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 980 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.