NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks

Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q sales 27 June 2017. This is 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 47.77 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q's architecture, market type and release date.
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.
Transistor count
7,200 million
of 21100
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
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
Memory clock speed
10008 MHz
of 14000
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
+
Multi-Projection
+
Multi Monitor
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
+
Benchmark 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
47.77
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
387951
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
114542
3DMark Fire Strike Score
14274
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
18192
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
23540
3DMark Vantage Performance
39562
Unigine Heaven 3.0
197
Passmark
10207
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q from AMD is Radeon RX 580 Mobile, which is slower by 17% and lower by 22 positions in our rating.