NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900, 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
186% significantly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
23 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
32996 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
33694 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
31425 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
32351 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586
252nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 7900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q beats the Radeon HD 7900 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is better than the Radeon HD 7900.

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