NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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

50 %

47% significantly better overall score

34 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

71 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

54 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

65 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6915

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

613.39

1919.55

212% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531

86778

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640

74397

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

62864

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47863

78494

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64389

71762

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

81% significantly higher core clock speed

885 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

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

384 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

80 W

125% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

75.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

170.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

62% significantly better floating point performance

5.46 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

49th of 557

81st of 557

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

May 2016

January 2019

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 2070 Max-Q specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.