GeForce RTX 5080 vs Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 19)
Why choose Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (89 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 89.0 Very Good WINNER
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 19.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Fire Strike 75605 —
Night Raid 199650 —
Port Royal 23275 —
Solar Bay 161489 —
Time Spy 33000 —
Wild Life Extreme 69617 —

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
CUDA 12.0 —
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
1080p High 239 —
1080p Ultra 205 —
1440p Ultra 165 —
4K Ultra 96 —
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 —
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 —
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 —
Far Cry 6 19417115597 —
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 —
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 —
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 —
Margin of Error Low —
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 —
The Witcher 3 27124417290 —

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 7794
Face Detection (HP) 92863 8563
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 2540
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 7387
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 4047
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 2228
Object Detection (SP) 20955 2725
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 11171
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 34572
Text Classification (SP) 3701 819

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 66.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 1.24 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 28.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 6543.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 102.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Xe LPG
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 —
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 135Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 December 14, 2023
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Intel
AMD Equivalent — -Radeon 760M
Successor — -Intel Arc 140V
Used in CPUs — -Intel Core Ultra 5 135H-Intel Core Ultra 7 155H-Intel Core Ultra 7 165H-Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Base Clock 2295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 2200-2350 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 1536KB shared
L2 Cache 64MB shared —
Ray-tracing Cores 84 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 32
Shading Units 10752 1024
Tensor Cores 336 —
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Bus 256-bit —
ECC No —
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps —
Memory Clock 1875 MHz —
Memory Size 16 GB —
Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
DirectX 11 327 FPS —
DirectX 12 145 FPS —
G2D Mark 1397 —
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s —

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Die Size 378 mm² —
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 360 W 28 W
Transistor Count 45.6 billion —
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² —

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 70-75 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 141-150 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2025-11-08(Anuj) — GeekBench
📘 2026-01-15(Ak-Dev) — GeekBench
📘 2026-02-22(Catt) — Steel Nomad Light

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