NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 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

3570 points

5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

77 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

56 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

69 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

305% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1479 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

609.00 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

48650 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37453 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

62239 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1560 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

36% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

99.84 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

199.68 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

6.39 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

135th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

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 Radeon RX 5600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600 beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5600 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5600 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.