GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop (34/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 28)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 28.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Fire Strike 75605 19662
Night Raid 199650 75487
Port Royal 23275 4476
Solar Bay 161489 33550
Time Spy 33000 7575
Wild Life Extreme 69617 3521

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
CUDA 12.0 8.6
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 2
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
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 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
1080p High 239 91
1080p Ultra 205 73
1440p Ultra 165 53
4K Ultra 96 28
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 72664329
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 1641228943
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 61543115
Far Cry 6 19417115597 86776130
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 104655237
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 55453517
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 62513619
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 97886032
The Witcher 3 27124417290 114896633

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 20307
Face Detection (HP) 92863 21457
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 4552
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 11804
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 11986
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 2727
Object Detection (SP) 20955 6308
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 52678
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 111653
Text Classification (SP) 3701 2248

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 140.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 5.52 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 73 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 0.9 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 4.08 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 12769.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 414.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 GA104
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core i7 12800HXor above
Released January 7, 2025 April 12, 2021
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Successor — -Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Base Clock 2295 MHz 600-1080 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 1180-1560 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 32
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 64
Shading Units 10752 4096
Tensor Cores 336 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 128

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 11000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 6 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
DirectX 11 327 FPS 102 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 56 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 555
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 5426 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Die Size 378 mm² 392 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TGP 360 W 60-130 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 76-100 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 151-200 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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