NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 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

20741 points

514% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

418 FPS

356 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

295 FPS

239 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

379 FPS

333 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

170 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

7249 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

3144.45 points

462% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

160380 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

194640 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

2970 MHz

102% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

640 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

380.2 Gigapixels/s

304% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

48.7 TFLOPS

547% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 597

8th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 9070 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9070 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.