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

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

8845 points

162% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

210 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

104 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

151 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

83 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

14857 points

147% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

3754.04 points

571% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

165866 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

147200 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

104828 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

138062 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

131952 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1575 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1770 MHz

20% 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

608.3 GB/s

89% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

163% significantly lower TDP

290 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

189% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

6144

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

192

20% 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

45th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6X

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 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 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 3070 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.