NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

6333 points

87% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

137 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

81 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

115 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

62 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

3522.98 points

530% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

104383 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

98514 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

0.89% slightly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 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

45 W

144% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3328

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

53% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 596

77th of 596

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR7

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 5060 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming.

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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 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 5060 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.