NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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

8113 points

140% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

197 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

96 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

140 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

77 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

13651 points

127% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

3380.77 points

505% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

149734 points

218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

135064 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

99979 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

128209 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

121057 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1500 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1725 MHz

17% 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

100% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

76% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

170% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5888

129% significantly 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 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 3070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.