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

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

16967 points

402% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

394 FPS

333 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

213 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

288 FPS

243 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

163 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

7942.06 points

1321% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

215096 points

332% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

191283 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1515 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

896 GB/s

179% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

95 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

111% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

10496

309% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

328

104% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

14th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2025 March

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 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

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

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q at 110 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.