NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 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

42789 points

1167% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

1019 FPS

958 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

503 FPS

448 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

740 FPS

694 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

425 FPS

383 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

14480 points

141% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

14992.38 points

2583% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

383325 points

671% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

380401 points

552% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

2017 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

2407 MHz

63% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

32 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

422% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

350% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

21760

749% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

680

325% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 597

1st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2025 January

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 5090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.