NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 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

4905 points

5962 points

21% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

136 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

81 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

92 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

7879 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1543.63 points

154% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

99084 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

91343 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

67503 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

91343 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

79119 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

167% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

1350 MHz

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

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

28% slightly higher pixel rate

86.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

259.20 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

8.29 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

81st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2019 May

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 Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 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 addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 1080.