NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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

3375 points

3523 points

4% 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

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

55 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

55 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

6954 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

1824.37 points

226% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

86778 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

74397 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

62864 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

76635 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

72004 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

885 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

1185 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

320.3 GB/s

384 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

80 W

37% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

75.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

170.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

37% slightly better floating point performance

5.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

137th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

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 RTX 2070 Max-Q specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly 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 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q at 110 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.