GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop vs RTX 3090
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop
AD104 (GN21-X9)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
GA102
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 12 GB with 58 pipelines and 7424 shaders against the 2 years and 5 months older RTX RTX 3090 24 GB that utilizes 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3090
- Performs slightly better (up to 13%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 8% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 120 vs 111 FPS
- Includes 12 GB more video memory
- Has 2.2x higher memory bandwidth: 936.2 vs 432 GB/s
- Features 96 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 24% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (211K vs 170K)
- Has 41% more shading units (10496 vs 7424)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 176 118 111 80 |
186 128 117 91 |
| The Witcher 3 | 196 168 117 62 |
205 170 128 66 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 276 204 146 83 |
275 207 155 83 |
| Far Cry 6 | 149 138 120 73 |
156 145 124 77 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 122 103 78 42 |
128 108 86 47 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 154 148 114 75 |
171 159 123 80 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 110 90 75 45 |
120 97 85 48 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 138 122 83 38 |
148 132 90 43 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 219 204 152 87 |
237 226 168 91 |
| 1080p High | 171 | 181 |
| 1080p Ultra | 144 | 152 |
| 1440p Ultra | 111 | 120 |
| 4K Ultra | 65 | 70 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 18826 | 19896 |
| Solar Bay | 85393 | 97395 |
| Port Royal | 11838 | 13633 |
| Fire Strike | 41181 | 47512 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 36953 | 43669 |
| Night Raid | 147086 | 139766 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 328.9 img/sec | 320.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 192.3 img/sec | 207.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.51 Gpixels/sec | 10.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.11 Gpixels/sec | 14.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 10.1 Gpixels/sec | 11.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.56 Gpixels/sec | 1.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 660.7 Gpixels/sec | 984.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 20765.5 FPS | 27764.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 928 | 1069 |
| DirectX 11 | 241 FPS | 218 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 96 FPS | 109 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 10995 Ops/s | 15028 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 10385 | 10665 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25896 | 28963 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27816 | 22697 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 51976 | 55232 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 142459 | 128155 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3405 | 3152 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4860 | 5088 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 13308 | 13891 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 49203 | 37984 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 262792 | 272000 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop and RTX 3090General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 8, 2023 | September 24, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $1499 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | AD104 (GN21-X9) | GA102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX 7900M | - Radeon RX 6900 XT |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5090 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above | - Intel Core i9 12900K or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (#10th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#20th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1290-1860 MHz (configurable) | 1395 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1665-2280 MHz (configurable) | 1695 MHz |
| Shading Units | 7424 | 10496 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 232 | 328 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 80 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 58 | 82 |
| Tensor Cores | 232 | 328 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 58 | 82 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 6MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 133-182 GPixel/s | 190 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 386-529 GTexel/s | 556 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-175 W (configurable) | 350 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 295 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 35.8 billion | 28 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.36 MTr/mm² | 44.59 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1219 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 19500 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 384-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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