Nvidia 1070 vs 1080 Max-Q - Laptop Graphics Comparison Benchmarks

**The Real-World Differences in Performance between the NVIDIA 1070 and Max Q 1080 Laptop Graphics Cards**

In our latest review, we put the NVIDIA 1070 and Max Q 1080 laptop graphics cards to the test to see how they perform in real-world gaming scenarios. We were surprised by the results, which show that while both cards are powerful, they have different strengths and weaknesses.

**Watchdogs: A Nice Little Boost with the Max Q 1080**

One of the games we tested was Watchdogs, a game where the differences between the two graphics cards became apparent. At high settings, the Max Q 1080 gave a slight edge over the 1070, but when we reduced the settings to Ultra, the 1070 still performed well and even managed to hit 60 frames per second. However, with the Max Q 1080, we were able to push the frame rate even higher, reaching 100 frames per second or more. This was a nice little boost that made a big difference in our gaming experience.

**Shadow of Mortal: A Surprising Result**

Another game we tested was Shadow of Mortal, which is a demanding game that requires high-performance graphics cards to run smoothly. We were surprised to see that the 1070 performed almost as well as the Max Q 1080 at high settings, even reaching frame rates of over 120 frames per second in some tests. This showed that the 1070 was more than capable of handling demanding games like Shadow of Mortal.

**Ghost Recon: A Game That Loves CPU Power**

In contrast to Watchdogs and Shadow of Mortal, Ghost Recon is a game that loves CPU power almost as much as it loves graphics card performance. We found that at high settings, the 1070 struggled to keep up with the Max Q 1080, but when we reduced the settings to lower levels, the difference between the two cards became less noticeable.

**Ashes of the Singularity: A Game That Demands High-End Graphics**

Another game we tested was Ashes of the Singularity, which is a game that demands high-end graphics cards to run smoothly. We found that at low and extreme settings, the Max Q 1080 performed well and was able to keep up with our frame rate targets, but when we stepped into "crazy" territory, both cards started to degrade more noticeably.

**Benchmarking Tools: A Useful Indicator**

While benchmarking tools can be a useful indicator of performance, they are not always entirely practical. In our tests, we found that there was a much larger difference in frame rate at lower settings compared to the highest settings. For example, in Heaven Benchmark, there was a significant gap between the frame rates at low and high settings, while in Valley Benchmark, all the results were about the same regardless of the setting level used.

**3DMark Timed Memory and Fire Strike Benchmarks: Synthetic Tests**

In synthetic tests like 3DMark Timed Memory and Fire Strike, performance scales much better compared to actual games. We found that both cards performed similarly well in these tests, with the Max Q 1080 performing only a small percentage point better than the 1070.

**Real-World Results: A Comparison of the Two Cards**

In our real-world testing, we found that the Max Q 1080 performed 10.15% better on average compared to the 1070. However, this was largely due to its higher clock speed and more CUDA cores, which gave it a slight edge in demanding games like Watchdogs.

**Is It Worth Upgrading to the Max Q 1080?**

In most cases, we would say that upgrading from the 1070 to the Max Q 1080 is not necessary for 1080p gaming at 60 frames per second. However, if you're looking for a powerful laptop with low power consumption and minimal noise, then the Max Q 1080 may be worth considering.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our testing showed that while both the NVIDIA 1070 and Max Q 1080 are powerful graphics cards, they have different strengths and weaknesses. The Max Q 1080 has a higher clock speed and more CUDA cores, which give it an edge in demanding games like Watchdogs. However, for most 1080p gaming scenarios, the 1070 is more than capable of handling your frame rate targets.

**What Do You Think?**

We want to hear from you! Which graphics card would you choose for your next laptop, and why? Let us know in the comments below, and don't forget to like this video if you found the information useful.

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primary hard drive which is running Windows 10 with all available updates applied no manual overclocking was performed for any of these tests and Jason can vsync were both disabled the main difference here is of course the One Laptop is running with an nvidia geforce gtx 1070 while the newer laptop has an nvidia geforce gtx 1080 with max q we can see straight away that the specs are a bit different in particular the max q 1080 has more cuda cores than the 1070 but it's clocked slower to keep it cooler and quieter with that in mind let's take a look at our benchmarks and find out how each of these cards perform will cover both real-world gaming benchmarks as well as the results of some benchmarking tools in player unknowns battlegrounds we can see some interesting behavior where the 1070 is actually performing the max Q 1080 at the lower settings however at medium settings are above the 1080 with Mexico pulls out in front this interesting behavior is also observed in rise of the Tomb Raider which is an automated benchmark and further supports the last result which is great as pub G is hard to benchmark consistently so I was concerned that my results were just bad none of the other tests performed this way though so I'm thinking it's something to do with these specific games rather than a general trend again only at the highest settings does the max Q 1080 take the lead with DirectX 12 giving a slight edge over DirectX 11 in most cases watchdogs to saw are a nice little boost with the max Q 1080 even at Ultra settings when were able to hit the 60fps but however with that said I still found the game completely playable at Ultra settings with the 1070 shadow of mortal was almost hitting 120 fps and above in all tests quite impressive only that ultra result from the 1070 let it down either of these graphics cards are pretty much overkill for this game unless you've got a display with a fast refresh rate doom is another game where the differences aren't that great the 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indicator note that these results are less practical compared to the real world gaming tests previously shown in heaven benchmark there's a much larger difference in framerate at lower settings compared to the highest settings whereas in valley benchmark all of the results are about the same apart regardless of the setting level used with the 3d mark times play and fire strike benchmarks there's much less of a gap between the two this is most likely due to the fact that these are synthetic tests where performance scales much better when compared with actual games so as expected the 1080 with Maxie you came out on top in most tests performing 10 point 15 percent better on average compared to the 1070 I was surprised that the 1070 performed better for some of the games at lower settings compared to the max Q 1080 I'm thinking that those games prefer a higher clocked card rather than more Kuta calls at lower settings so is it worth upgrading to the max Q 1080 if you already have a laptop with a 1070 that's definitely not based on these results it doesn't really seem or while you'll only be looking at a small improvement overall and it's an expensive upgrade is in most cases you'd probably be replacing the entire laptop if on the other hand you're considering buying a new laptop with either of these cards then it depends on what you're after both of these options are generally overkill for 1080p 60 Hertz gaming however at once one so perhaps larger resolutions both start to make more sense it depends on the games that you'll be playing as we've seen the FPS can differ quite a lot basically if you can afford a laptop with the Mexica 1080 want something powerful that we use a little less power than a full 1080 while being quite old then go for it but in most cases I think that generally cheaper 1070 is more than up to the jump for most games and it's what I'd personally pick out of the - the 1080 with max Q should use less power and produce less noise however as both of the laptops I've tested are completely different it wouldn't really be a fair comparison here I'd need two laptops of the same brand and model to do that justice regardless I'm sure people will want to know what I saw so keeping in mind that these results are basically useless as both laptops were from completely different companies with different cooling designs these are the results we can see that the max q10 ad actually ran a little hotter than the 1070 however it was also much quieter which is one of its selling points I hope that this video has shown you the real-world differences in performance between the nvidia 1070 and max Q 1080 laptop graphics cards and helped you choose between them let me know down in the comments which graphics card you'll be getting for your next laptop and why and leave the like on the video if you found the information useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onehey guys Jarrod here and today we're going to be benchmarking two laptops to compare the nvidia 1070 against the newer 1080 with max q design to see just how much better than new akkad performs and find out if it's worth upgrading to first let's discuss the differences between these two laptops the laptop with the 1070 has 10 gigabytes of ddr4 ram at 2400 megahertz while the laptop with the Mexica 1080 has 24 gigabytes although the difference is small I've previously run benchmarks with different amounts of memory and found that in general additional memory can improve overall frames per second in games however the increases seem to tail off up to 16 gigabytes basically just be aware that a small percentage of the difference may be due to the difference in memory as we're only testing at the 1080p resolution here as that's the display that both laptops use other than that both laptops have the same Intel 7700 HQ quad-core CPU and use an SSD for the primary hard drive which is running Windows 10 with all available updates applied no manual overclocking was performed for any of these tests and Jason can vsync were both disabled the main difference here is of course the One Laptop is running with an nvidia geforce gtx 1070 while the newer laptop has an nvidia geforce gtx 1080 with max q we can see straight away that the specs are a bit different in particular the max q 1080 has more cuda cores than the 1070 but it's clocked slower to keep it cooler and quieter with that in mind let's take a look at our benchmarks and find out how each of these cards perform will cover both real-world gaming benchmarks as well as the results of some benchmarking tools in player unknowns battlegrounds we can see some interesting behavior where the 1070 is actually performing the max Q 1080 at the lower settings however at medium settings are above the 1080 with Mexico pulls out in front this interesting behavior is also observed in rise of the Tomb Raider which is an automated benchmark and further supports the last result which is great as pub G is hard to benchmark consistently so I was concerned that my results were just bad none of the other tests performed this way though so I'm thinking it's something to do with these specific games rather than a general trend again only at the highest settings does the max Q 1080 take the lead with DirectX 12 giving a slight edge over DirectX 11 in most cases watchdogs to saw are a nice little boost with the max Q 1080 even at Ultra settings when were able to hit the 60fps but however with that said I still found the game completely playable at Ultra settings with the 1070 shadow of mortal was almost hitting 120 fps and above in all tests quite impressive only that ultra result from the 1070 let it down either of these graphics cards are pretty much overkill for this game unless you've got a display with a fast refresh rate doom is another game where the differences aren't that great the results are all fairly close together regardless of the settings worth the 10 70 in Mexico 10 80 consistently gave me over 100 FPS in Ghost Recon there was a lot of difference between the two graphics cards at the lowest settings and it seems to come much closer together at very high and ultra this game loves CPU pal and at the highest settings we were starting to become bottle necked resulting in the little difference between the 1070 and max Q 1080 The Witcher 3 file is a similar pattern where we can see the larger gap between the two at the lower settings in either case even a maximum settings both options do well above 60 fps which should be fine for most people in this game ashes of the singularity performed fairly similarly between low and extreme settings only when we step into crazy territory two things start to degrade more noticeably additionally once again in most cases DirectX 12 gives a nice little boost over DirectX 11 now onto the benchmarking tools while a useful indicator note that these results are less practical compared to the real world gaming tests previously shown in heaven benchmark there's a much larger difference in framerate at lower settings compared to the highest settings whereas in valley benchmark all of the results are about the same apart regardless of the setting level used with the 3d mark times play and fire strike benchmarks there's much less of a gap between the two this is most likely due to the fact that these are synthetic tests where performance scales much better when compared with actual games so as expected the 1080 with Maxie you came out on top in most tests performing 10 point 15 percent better on average compared to the 1070 I was surprised that the 1070 performed better for some of the games at lower settings compared to the max Q 1080 I'm thinking that those games prefer a higher clocked card rather than more Kuta calls at lower settings so is it worth upgrading to the max Q 1080 if you already have a laptop with a 1070 that's definitely not based on these results it doesn't really seem or while you'll only be looking at a small improvement overall and it's an expensive upgrade is in most cases you'd probably be replacing the entire laptop if on the other hand you're considering buying a new laptop with either of these cards then it depends on what you're after both of these options are generally overkill for 1080p 60 Hertz gaming however at once one so perhaps larger resolutions both start to make more sense it depends on the games that you'll be playing as we've seen the FPS can differ quite a lot basically if you can afford a laptop with the Mexica 1080 want something powerful that we use a little less power than a full 1080 while being quite old then go for it but in most cases I think that generally cheaper 1070 is more than up to the jump for most games and it's what I'd personally pick out of the - the 1080 with max Q should use less power and produce less noise however as both of the laptops I've tested are completely different it wouldn't really be a fair comparison here I'd need two laptops of the same brand and model to do that justice regardless I'm sure people will want to know what I saw so keeping in mind that these results are basically useless as both laptops were from completely different companies with different cooling designs these are the results we can see that the max q10 ad actually ran a little hotter than the 1070 however it was also much quieter which is one of its selling points I hope that this video has shown you the real-world differences in performance between the nvidia 1070 and max Q 1080 laptop graphics cards and helped you choose between them let me know down in the comments which graphics card you'll be getting for your next laptop and why and leave the like on the video if you found the information useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"