GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop (39/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 39)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 33)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 39.0 Poor
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 33.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Fire Strike 75605 26200
Night Raid 199650 61009
Port Royal 23275 5817
Solar Bay 161489 40186
Time Spy 33000 9295
Wild Life Extreme 69617 20653

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 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 A5000 Laptop
1080p High 239 105
1080p Ultra 205 85
1440p Ultra 165 62
4K Ultra 96 35
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 85795336
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 18714310251
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 74653917
Far Cry 6 19417115597 100877039
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 114716241
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 66534125
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 70594420
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 1151057441
The Witcher 3 27124417290 1321057543

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 25256
Face Detection (HP) 92863 30795
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 6590
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 12226
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 16682
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 3207
Object Detection (SP) 20955 8583
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 71291
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 149822
Text Classification (SP) 3701 2115

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 172.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 7.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 103.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 1.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 5.61 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 5.34 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 14218.2 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 474.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 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 i9 12900HXor above
Released January 7, 2025 April 12, 2021
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Base Clock 2295 MHz 780-1215 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 1245-1770 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 48
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 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 96
Shading Units 10752 6144
Tensor Cores 336 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 192

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
DirectX 11 327 FPS 138 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 74 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 663
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 6941 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 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 80-165 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 A5000 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 120-170 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 239-340 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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