NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1468MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +399%

7.516 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

10

GeForce GTX 960M +220%

32

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM107

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Related News

1

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

2

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

3

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

4

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

5

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

6

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

7

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

8

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

9

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

10

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD