980 Mobile vs 1070 Max-Q

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Combined performance score

GTX 1070 Max-Q
17.93

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 23% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking283232
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money5.9829.67
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code nameN17E-G2 Max-QN16E-GXX
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 May 2017 (6 years old)22 September 2014 (9 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$395.82
Current price$1244 $251 (0.6x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 980 Mobile has 396% better value for money than GTX 1070 Max-Q.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20482048
CUDA coresno data2048
Core clock speed1101 - 1215 MHz1064 MHz
Boost clock speed1265 - 1379 MHz1216 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt100-200 Watt
Texture fill rate176.5144 billion/sec
Floating-point performance5,648 gflops4,358 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q and GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 sizelargelarge
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI optionsno data+

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth256.3 GB/s224 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor supportno data4 displays
VGA аnalog display supportno data+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportno data+
HDMIno data+
HDCPno data+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
G-SYNC support++
Audio input for HDMIno dataInternal

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStreamno data+
GeForce ShadowPlayno data+
GPU Boostno data2.0
GameWorksno data+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoderno data+
Optimusno data+
BatteryBoostno data+
VR Ready+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA6.1+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 1070 Max-Q 17.93
GTX 980 Mobile 22.12
+23.4%

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 23% in our combined benchmark results.


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 44090
+11.1%
GTX 980 Mobile 39702

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 11% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 18688
+8.6%
GTX 980 Mobile 17201

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 9% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 14679
+12.5%
GTX 980 Mobile 13047

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 13% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 99552
+29.8%
GTX 980 Mobile 76705

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 30% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 334256
GTX 980 Mobile 347481
+4%

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 4% in 3DMark Ice Storm GPU.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 92
GTX 980 Mobile 107
+15.8%

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 16% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 48
GTX 980 Mobile 49
+2.9%

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 3% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 7
+11.5%
GTX 980 Mobile 6

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 11% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 63
+18.1%
GTX 980 Mobile 54

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 18% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 45
+29.9%
GTX 980 Mobile 35

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 30% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 34
+11.3%
GTX 980 Mobile 31

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 11% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 75
+26.8%
GTX 980 Mobile 59

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 27% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 75
+26.8%
GTX 980 Mobile 59

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 27% in SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase.

SPECviewperf 12 - Maya

This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 92
GTX 980 Mobile 107
+15.8%

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 16% in SPECviewperf 12 - Maya.

SPECviewperf 12 - Catia

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 63
+18.1%
GTX 980 Mobile 54

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 18% in SPECviewperf 12 - Catia.

SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 48
GTX 980 Mobile 49
+2.9%

980 Mobile outperforms 1070 Max-Q by 3% in SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks.

SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 7
+11.5%
GTX 980 Mobile 6

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 11% in SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX.

SPECviewperf 12 - Creo

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 45
+29.9%
GTX 980 Mobile 35

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 30% in SPECviewperf 12 - Creo.

SPECviewperf 12 - Medical

Benchmark coverage: 2%

GTX 1070 Max-Q 34
+11.3%
GTX 980 Mobile 31

1070 Max-Q outperforms 980 Mobile by 11% in SPECviewperf 12 - Medical.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD95
−4.2%
99
+4.2%
4K41
−9.8%
45
+9.8%

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 27−30
−28.6%
35−40
+28.6%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 62
+40.9%
40−45
−40.9%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 30−35
−25.8%
35−40
+25.8%
Battlefield 5 81
+11%
70−75
−11%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 45−50
−26.1%
55−60
+26.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 27−30
−28.6%
35−40
+28.6%
Far Cry 5 81
+39.7%
55−60
−39.7%
Far Cry New Dawn 45−50
−20.4%
55−60
+20.4%
Forza Horizon 4 101
+34.7%
75−80
−34.7%
Hitman 3 50−55
−27.5%
65−70
+27.5%
Horizon Zero Dawn 35−40
−23.7%
45−50
+23.7%
Red Dead Redemption 2 30−33
−20%
35−40
+20%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 72
+50%
45−50
−50%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−26.5%
40−45
+26.5%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 57
+29.5%
40−45
−29.5%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 30−35
−25.8%
35−40
+25.8%
Battlefield 5 81
+11%
70−75
−11%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 45−50
−26.1%
55−60
+26.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 27−30
−28.6%
35−40
+28.6%
Far Cry 5 78
+34.5%
55−60
−34.5%
Far Cry New Dawn 45−50
−20.4%
55−60
+20.4%
Forza Horizon 4 97
+29.3%
75−80
−29.3%
Hitman 3 50−55
−27.5%
65−70
+27.5%
Horizon Zero Dawn 35−40
−23.7%
45−50
+23.7%
Metro Exodus 27−30
−28.6%
35−40
+28.6%
Red Dead Redemption 2 30−33
−20%
35−40
+20%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 63
+31.3%
45−50
−31.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 95
+13.1%
84
−13.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−26.5%
40−45
+26.5%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 42
−4.8%
40−45
+4.8%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 30−35
−25.8%
35−40
+25.8%
Battlefield 5 75
+2.7%
70−75
−2.7%
Cyberpunk 2077 27−30
−28.6%
35−40
+28.6%
Far Cry 5 75
+29.3%
55−60
−29.3%
Far Cry New Dawn 45−50
−20.4%
55−60
+20.4%
Forza Horizon 4 79
+5.3%
75−80
−5.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 51
+15.9%
44
−15.9%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−26.5%
40−45
+26.5%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 27−30
−25.9%
30−35
+25.9%
Hitman 3 27−30
−24.1%
35−40
+24.1%
Horizon Zero Dawn 24−27
−20.8%
27−30
+20.8%
Metro Exodus 16−18
−29.4%
21−24
+29.4%
Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
−30.8%
16−18
+30.8%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 21−24
−26.1%
27−30
+26.1%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
−26.3%
24−27
+26.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 16−18
−31.3%
21−24
+31.3%
Battlefield 5 35−40
−25.6%
45−50
+25.6%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−30%
12−14
+30%
Far Cry 5 30−33
−26.7%
35−40
+26.7%
Far Cry New Dawn 30−35
−26.5%
40−45
+26.5%
Forza Horizon 4 35−40
−25%
45−50
+25%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
−31.6%
24−27
+31.6%
Watch Dogs: Legion 12−14
−33.3%
16−18
+33.3%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
−30.8%
16−18
+30.8%
Hitman 3 16−18
−23.5%
21−24
+23.5%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−16.7%
14−16
+16.7%
Metro Exodus 10−11
−30%
12−14
+30%
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11
−20%
12−14
+20%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 20
+33.3%
14−16
−33.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 32
+6.7%
30
−6.7%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21
+50%
14−16
−50%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 9−10
−33.3%
12−14
+33.3%
Battlefield 5 20−22
−30%
24−27
+30%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−66.7%
5−6
+66.7%
Far Cry 5 27
+50%
18−20
−50%
Far Cry New Dawn 16−18
−23.5%
21−24
+23.5%
Forza Horizon 4 43
+38.7%
30−35
−38.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion 7−8
−42.9%
10−11
+42.9%

This is how GTX 1070 Max-Q and GTX 980 Mobile compete in popular games:

1080p resolution:

  • GTX 980 Mobile is 4.2% faster than GTX 1070 Max-Q

4K resolution:

  • GTX 980 Mobile is 9.8% faster than GTX 1070 Max-Q

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the GTX 1070 Max-Q is 50% faster than the GTX 980 Mobile.
  • in Cyberpunk 2077, with 4K resolution and the Ultra Preset, the GTX 980 Mobile is 66.7% faster than the GTX 1070 Max-Q.

All in all, in popular games:

  • GTX 1070 Max-Q is ahead in 20 tests (29%)
  • GTX 980 Mobile is ahead in 48 tests (71%)

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 17.93 22.12
Recency 30 May 2017 22 September 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 100 Watt

The GeForce GTX 980 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in performance tests.


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