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GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs 4080 Laptop

GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
GB206-300
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop
AD104 (GN21-X9)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile 8 GB with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 2 years older RTX 4080 Mobile 12 GB that utilizes 58 pipelines and 7424 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4080 Mobile over RTX 5070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 38%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 46% higher maximum theoretical performance (33.9 vs 23.2 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 26% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 111 vs 88 FPS
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Features 88 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 27% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (170K vs 134K)
  • Has 61% more shading units (7424 vs 4608)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 5070 Laptop
vs
RTX 4080 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
148
95
87
62
176
118
111
80
The Witcher 3
166
140
101
57
196
168
117
62
Counter-Strike 2
242
191
136
79
276
204
146
83
Far Cry 6
128
118
93
57
149
138
120
73
Hogwarts Legacy
98
79
61
34
122
103
78
42
CoD: Modern Warfare III
124
111
80
54
154
148
114
75
Ghost of Tsushima
88
77
59
31
110
90
75
45
Cyberpunk 2077
104
92
60
27
138
122
83
38
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
165
150
113
59
219
204
152
87
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 171
1080p Ultra 117 144
1440p Ultra 88 111
4K Ultra 51 65
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 5070 Laptop
13949
RTX 4080 Laptop +38%
19295
Time Spy 13620 18826
Solar Bay 60191 85393
Port Royal 8718 11838
Fire Strike 35708 41181
Wild Life Extreme 24700 36953
Night Raid 124794 147086
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 5070 Laptop
134209
RTX 4080 Laptop +27%
170767
Background Blur 213.4 img/sec 328.9 img/sec
Face Detection 130.4 img/sec 192.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.89 Gpixels/sec 6.51 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.23 Gpixels/sec 9.11 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.41 Gpixels/sec 10.1 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 1.56 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 661.9 Gpixels/sec 660.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19395.6 FPS 20765.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 5070 Laptop
19106
RTX 4080 Laptop +30%
24746
G2D Mark 895 928
DirectX 11 185 FPS 241 FPS
DirectX 12 91 FPS 96 FPS
GPU Compute 7051 Ops/s 10995 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3607 & 4043 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 5070 Laptop
4005.43
RTX 4080 Laptop +36%
5456.77
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 440 & 1015 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Levi)Geekbench 6 OpenCL141514
📘 2026-04-11 (Cyrus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL131880
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GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 5070 Laptop
22022
RTX 4080 Laptop +21%
26637
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 5070 Laptop
17069
RTX 4080 Laptop +17%
19995
Image Classification (SP) 8984 10385
Image Segmentation (HP) 26270 25896
Image Super Resolution (Q) 24606 27816
Face Detection (HP) 48283 51976
Pose Estimation (Q) 98180 142459
Text Classification (SP) 3260 3405
Machine Translation (HP) 5770 4860
Object Detection (SP) 11172 13308
Depth Estimation (Q) 43305 49203
Style Transfer (SP) 165555 262792
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and 4080 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 February 8, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB206-300 AD104 (GN21-X9)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7900M
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (16th and 10th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 890-1410 MHz (configurable) 1290-1860 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1410-2520 MHz (configurable) 1665-2280 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 4608 7424
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 232
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 58
Tensor Cores 144 232
Ray-tracing Cores 36 58
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 48MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 68-121 GPixel/s 133-182 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTexel/s 386-529 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 5070 Laptop
13-23.2 TFLOPS
RTX 4080 Laptop +46%
24.7-33.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 50-125 W (configurable) 60-175 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 181 mm² 295 mm²
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 35.8 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 121.36 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 5070 Laptop
384 GB/s
RTX 4080 Laptop +13%
432 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12.0 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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