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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q sales 27 June 2017. This is high-end Pascal architecture notebook card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5X memory clocked at 10.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.3 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 55.05 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Gaming AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

Pascal

Code name

GP104

Type

Laptop

Release date

27 June 2017

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2560

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1290 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

of 1750 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

7,200 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

234.9

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

7,516 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

10008 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

CUDA

6.1

Multi-Projection

Multi Monitor

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX 12_1

Vulkan

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

55.05

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

387951.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

114542.00

3DMark Fire Strike Score

14287.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

18219.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

23540.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

39562.00

Unigine Heaven 3.0

197.00

Passmark

10207.00

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

58.70

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Far Cry 5 (2018)

low / 720p

103.00

medium / 1080p

91.00

high / 1080p

89.00

ultra / 1080p

85.00

4k / 2160p

34.00

Fortnite (2018)

low / 720p

258.00

medium / 1080p

188.00

high / 1080p

127.00

ultra / 1080p

109.00

4k / 2160p

33.50

Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018)

low / 720p

121.00

medium / 1080p

95.00

high / 1080p

77.00

ultra / 1080p

62.00

4k / 2160p

20.20

Ark Survival Evolved (2017)

high / 1080p

56.60

ultra / 1080p

38.60

Assassin´s Creed Origins (2017)

low / 720p

71.00

medium / 1080p

66.00

high / 1080p

62.00

ultra / 1080p

58.00

4k / 2160p

35.00

Destiny 2 (2017)

low / 720p

124.00

medium / 1080p

122.00

high / 1080p

122.00

ultra / 1080p

115.00

4k / 2160p

32.00

Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017)

low / 720p

131.70

medium / 1080p

101.40

high / 1080p

91.05

ultra / 1080p

54.55

4k / 2160p

34.10

Mass Effect Andromeda (2017)

high / 1080p

81.40

ultra / 1080p

73.20

4k / 2160p

35.10

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) (2017)

low / 720p

125.00

medium / 1080p

111.00

high / 1080p

103.50

ultra / 1080p

80.40

4k / 2160p

27.10

Resident Evil 7 (2017)

high / 1080p

168.50

ultra / 1080p

141.00

4k / 2160p

47.40

Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017)

low / 720p

206.00

medium / 1080p

144.00

high / 1080p

128.00

ultra / 1080p

107.00

4k / 2160p

35.50

Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)

high / 1080p

130.00

ultra / 1080p

113.00

4k / 2160p

49.00

Deus Ex Mankind Divided (2016)

high / 1080p

88.80

ultra / 1080p

49.00

4k / 2160p

29.60

Dishonored 2 (2016)

high / 1080p

78.20

ultra / 1080p

66.50

4k / 2160p

43.40

Doom (2016)

high / 1080p

134.00

ultra / 1080p

128.00

4k / 2160p

53.90

Far Cry Primal (2016)

high / 1080p

92.00

ultra / 1080p

87.00

4k / 2160p

41.00

Overwatch (2016)

ultra / 1080p

172.00

Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)

high / 1080p

125.00

ultra / 1080p

109.60

4k / 2160p

43.60

The Division (2016)

high / 1080p

108.50

ultra / 1080p

85.40

4k / 2160p

41.65

Titanfall 2 (2016)

high / 1080p

131.00

ultra / 1080p

113.00

4k / 2160p

46.60

Watch Dogs 2 (2016)

high / 1080p

86.70

ultra / 1080p

66.70

4k / 2160p

34.90

Dota 2 (2015)

4k / 2160p

114.00

Rainbow Six Siege (2015)

high / 1080p

201.50

ultra / 1080p

174.00

4k / 2160p

67.85

The Witcher 3 (2015)

low / 768p

278.60

medium / 768p

201.60

high / 1080p

118.00

ultra / 1080p

63.55

4k / 2160p

44.50

Tomb Raider (2013)

low / 768p

486.50

medium / 768p

461.90

high / 768p

419.20

ultra / 1080p

230.40

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

105.34 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

103.31 %

AMD Radeon R9 Fury

101.54 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

99.67 %

NVIDIA Quadro P5000 Mobile

96.89 %

NVIDIA Quadro P2000

94.77 %

AMD Radeon RX 580

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q from AMD is Radeon RX 470 Mobile, which is slower by 18% and lower by 29 positions in our rating.