GeForce RTX 5080 vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop (60/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 64)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 64.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Fire Strike 75605 47380
Night Raid 199650 172035
Port Royal 23275 14223
Solar Bay 161489 99471
Time Spy 33000 22033
Wild Life Extreme 69617 41208

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
CUDA 12.0 10.1
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
1080p High 239 187
1080p Ultra 205 159
1440p Ultra 165 126
4K Ultra 96 73
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 17616513286
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 27921415682
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 1551389646
Far Cry 6 19417115597 15614612878
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 19613612593
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 1221038952
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 1351138949
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 24723918398
The Witcher 3 27124417290 21617713469

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 52089
Face Detection (HP) 92863 46322
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 10192
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 23343
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 31132
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 4696
Object Detection (SP) 20955 13038
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 134037
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 248270
Text Classification (SP) 3701 3319

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 194.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 12.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 165.6 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 11.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 8.61 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 27590.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 1060 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 275HXor above
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Base Clock 2295 MHz 975 MHz
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 1500-2410 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 60
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 60
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 96
Shading Units 10752 7680
Tensor Cores 336 240
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 240

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
DirectX 11 327 FPS 255 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 115 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 1087
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 10276 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Die Size 378 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 360 W 80-175 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 144-231 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 360-578 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2025-08-14(Vasujen07) — GeekBench

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