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

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

5% slightly better overall score

3199 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

66 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

50 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

56 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

6119 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

673.32 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

51426 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

40406 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

55712 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

51663 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

1035 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

1265 MHz

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

16% slightly higher pixel rate

80.96 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

182.16 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

147th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 July

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 5600M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a slightly 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. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 5600M at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600M over the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.