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

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

5387 points

59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

124 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

70 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

84 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

56 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

8047 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

1574.05 points

181% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

104025 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

87150 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

65188 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

90092 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

82332 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

99% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1095 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

90 W

22% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

201.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

6.45 TFLOPS

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

94th 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 2080 Max-Q benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 RTX 2080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q at 110 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.