NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 8 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

47% significantly better overall score

2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

48 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4328 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

42% significantly higher Blender score

390.99 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

49182 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54191 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45779 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1340 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

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

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

68% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

119% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

6.18 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

192nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 580 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 580.