NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA Quadro T2000 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA T500 Laptop GPU

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 with the Max-Q design is a mobile high-end GPU from the Pascal series. It is designed for thin and light laptops and about 10-15% slower than a regular GTX 1080 for laptops based on the cooling capabilities. The base frequency (1101-1290 MHz) is also much lower than on the regular GTX 1080 (1566 MHz, at least -18%) and the Boost (1278-1458 MHz) is also much lower compared to 1733 MHz (at least -16%) for the regular GTX 1080. The memory clock, however, is identical.

The clock is not the only difference compared to the regular GTX 1080 though. The drivers for the Max-Q version were optimized for efficiency (and not performance; only for Max-Q models), there are optimized voltage converters for 1V operation, high-end cooling methods, and a 40 dB limit for the fan noise (with clock adjustments to ensure this at all times).

The performance is nearer to the normal (Max-P) GeForce GTX 1070 than to then GTX 1080 (at least in the Asus Zephyrus). Therefore, most demanding games should be playable in full HD and maximum detail settings (see game benchmarks below).

Features

The GP104 chip is manufactured in 16nm FinFET process at TSMC and offers a range of new features. DisplayPort 1.4 (ready), HDMI 2.0b, HDR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP), improved H.265 video en- and decoders (for PlayReady 3.0) are only some of the improvements. See our detailed Pascal architecture article for more details.

The power consumption of the Max-Q design is notably lower than the normal GTX 1080 for laptops and ranges between 90 and 110 Watt (TGP) according to Nvidia.

NVIDIA Quadro T2000 (Laptop)

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The Nvidia Quadro T2000 for laptops is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is based on the consumer desktop GTX 1650 Ti with comparable clock speeds and therefore currently between a mobile GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti. The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC.

The GPU features 1024 shaders, 64 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs. The 4 GB GDDR5 memory is connected with a 128-bit memory interface and clocked at 2000 MHz. At a TGP of 60W, the clock speeds are specified from 1575 MHz (base) to 1785 MHz (boost).

The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal. In contrary to the faster Quadro RTX cards (e.g. Quadro RTX 3000), the T1000 and T2000 don not feature raytracing and Tensor cores.

NVIDIA T500 Laptop GPU

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The Nvidia T500 Mobile (formerly known as Quadro T500) for laptops is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is based on the consumer GeForce MX450 and features the same 896 cores and a 64 Bit memory bus. Currently it is available with 2 or 4 GB graphics RAM (GDDR5 or GDDR6). The TDP ranges between 18 - 25 Watt depending on the variant. As the MX450, the T500 also supports PCIe 4.0. The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC.

The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal. In contrary to the faster Quadro RTX cards, the T500 does not feature raytracing and Tensor cores.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

NVIDIA Quadro T2000 (Laptop)

NVIDIA T500 Laptop GPU

Quadro Turing Series

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti	3584 @ 1.48 - 1.6 GHz	352 Bit @ 11000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (Laptop)	5120 @ 1.56 - 1.73 GHz	256 Bit @ 10000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop)	3840 @ 1.51 - 1.68 GHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop)	4096 @ 1.44 - 1.65 GHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)	2560 @ 1.61 - 1.73 GHz	256 Bit @ 10000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile	2560 @ 1.57 - 1.73 GHz	256 Bit @ 10000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (Desktop)	2432 @ 1.61 - 1.68 GHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	1920 @ 1.51 - 1.68 GHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q	2560 @ 1.1 - 1.28 GHz	256 Bit @ 10000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile	2048 @ 1.44 - 1.65 GHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q	2048 @ 1.1 - 1.27 GHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop)	1280 @ 1.51 - 1.71 GHz	192 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile	1280 @ 1.4 - 1.67 GHz	192 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q	1280 @ 1.06 - 1.34 GHz	192 Bit @ 8000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile	768 @ 1.49 - 1.62 GHz	128 Bit @ 7000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop)	768 @ 1.29 - 1.39 GHz	128 Bit @ 7008 MHz
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q	768 @ 1.15 - 1.29 GHz	128 Bit @ 7000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)	640 @ 1.35 - 1.46 GHz	128 Bit @ 7008 MHz
GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile	640 @ 1.35 - 1.49 GHz	128 Bit @ 7000 MHz
GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q	640 @ 1 - 1.14 GHz	128 Bit @ 7000 MHz
GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop)	384 @ 1.23 - 1.67 GHz	64 Bit @ 6000 MHz

Quadro RTX 6000 (Laptop)	4608 @ 1.28 - 1.46 GHz	384 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 5000 (Laptop)	3072 @ 1.04 - 1.55 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q	3072 @ 0.6 - 1.35 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 4000 (Laptop)	2560 @ 1.11 - 1.56 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q	2560 @ 0.78 - 1.38 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 3000 (Laptop)	1920 @ 0.95 - 1.38 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q	1920 @ 0.6 - 1.22 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro T2000 (Laptop)	1024 @ 1.58 - 1.79 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Quadro T2000 Max-Q	1024 @ 0.93 - 1.5 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
T1200 Laptop GPU	1024 @ 0.86 - 1.43 GHz	128 Bit @ 10000 MHz
Quadro T1000 (Laptop)	768 @ 1.4 - 1.46 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Quadro T1000 Max-Q	768 @ 0.8 - 1.46 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
T600 Laptop GPU	896 @ 1.4 GHz	128 Bit @ 10000 MHz
T550 Laptop GPU	1024 @ 1.07 - 1.67 GHz	64 Bit @ 12000 MHz
T500 Laptop GPU	896 @ 1.37 - 1.7 GHz	64 Bit @ 10000 MHz
T600	640 @ 0.74 - 1.34 GHz	128 Bit @ 10000 MHz

Quadro RTX 6000 (Laptop)	4608 @ 1.28 - 1.46 GHz	384 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 5000 (Laptop)	3072 @ 1.04 - 1.55 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q	3072 @ 0.6 - 1.35 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 4000 (Laptop)	2560 @ 1.11 - 1.56 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q	2560 @ 0.78 - 1.38 GHz	256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 3000 (Laptop)	1920 @ 0.95 - 1.38 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q	1920 @ 0.6 - 1.22 GHz	192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Quadro T2000 (Laptop)	1024 @ 1.58 - 1.79 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Quadro T2000 Max-Q	1024 @ 0.93 - 1.5 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
T1200 Laptop GPU	1024 @ 0.86 - 1.43 GHz	128 Bit @ 10000 MHz
Quadro T1000 (Laptop)	768 @ 1.4 - 1.46 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Quadro T1000 Max-Q	768 @ 0.8 - 1.46 GHz	128 Bit @ 8000 MHz
T600 Laptop GPU	896 @ 1.4 GHz	128 Bit @ 10000 MHz
T550 Laptop GPU	1024 @ 1.07 - 1.67 GHz	64 Bit @ 12000 MHz
T500 Laptop GPU	896 @ 1.37 - 1.7 GHz	64 Bit @ 10000 MHz
T600	640 @ 0.74 - 1.34 GHz	128 Bit @ 10000 MHz

Codename

N17E-G3 Max-Q

N19P-Q3

Architecture

Pascal

Turing

Pipelines

2560 - unified

1024 - unified

896 - unified

Core Speed

1101 - 1290 - 1278 - 1468 (Boost) MHz

1575 - 1785 (Boost) MHz

1365 - 1695 (Boost) MHz

Memory Speed

10000 MHz

8000 MHz

10000 MHz

Memory Bus Width

256 Bit

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

GDDR5, GDDR6

Max. Amount of Memory

8 GB

4 GB

Shared Memory

API

DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.5

DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.6

Power Consumption

90 - 110 Watt

60 Watt

25 Watt

Transistors

7.2 Billion

4.7 Billion

technology

16 nm

12 nm

Features

Multi-Projection, VR Ready, G-SYNC, Vulkan, Multi Monitor

Notebook Size

large

medium sized

Date of Announcement

30.05.2017

27.05.2019