NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

5758 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

132 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

87 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

8470 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1851.17 points

204% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

104422 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

87462 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

70522 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

93202 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

83136 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

118% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

975 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

352 GB/s

9% 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

77% significantly higher pixel rate

62.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

187.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

48% significantly better floating point performance

5.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3072

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

192

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

87th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2020 April

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 2080 SUPER Max-Q benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in our tests.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.