NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 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

4905 points

45% significantly better overall score

3375 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

55 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

42 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5999 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

558.71 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

46955 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46870 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58341 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

49707 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

58341 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1468 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1468 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

Identical

320.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

110 W

63% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

93.95 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

234.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

7.52 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

Identical

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

141st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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