NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

7102 points

110% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

161 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

97 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

114 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

73 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

11016 points

83% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

2341.39 points

319% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

120612 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

105930 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

87178 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

112025 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

107797 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1515 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1710 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

39% 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

16% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

314.6 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

2944

15% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

184

15% 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

141st of 586

67th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2018 September

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 2080 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 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 significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.