NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 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

4905 points

39% slightly better overall score

3514 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

75 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

52 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5621 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1382.74 points

127% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

67657 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

61701 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

51683 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

64897 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59548 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

1185 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

21% slightly higher memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

65 W

176% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

56.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

95% significantly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

95% significantly better floating point performance

4.55 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

33% slightly more shading units

1920

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

138th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly 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 also has a significantly 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 the GeForce GTX 1080 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 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 RTX 2060 Max-Q.