GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs 3080 Ti Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile with 60 pipelines and 7680 shaders against the 3 years older RTX 3080 Ti Mobile that utilizes 58 pipelines and 7424 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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 3080 Ti Mobile over RTX 5080 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 75%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Shows 52% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 126 vs 83 FPS
  • 57% higher maximum theoretical performance (37 vs 23.6 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 896 vs 512 GB/s
  • Achieves 42% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (190K vs 133K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
196
136
125
93
143
91
81
57
The Witcher 3
216
177
134
69
164
136
98
55
Counter-Strike 2
279
214
156
82
238
181
129
72
Far Cry 6
156
146
128
78
123
111
88
51
Hogwarts Legacy
135
113
89
49
95
75
57
30
CoD: Modern Warfare III
176
165
132
86
116
106
78
49
Ghost of Tsushima
122
103
89
52
87
70
56
29
Cyberpunk 2077
155
138
96
46
99
90
57
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
247
239
183
98
150
138
103
57
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 187 135
1080p Ultra 159 111
1440p Ultra 126 83
4K Ultra 73 47
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
Time Spy 22033 12862
Solar Bay 99471 56131
Port Royal 14223 8091
Fire Strike 47380 30852
Wild Life Extreme 41208 26346
Night Raid 172035 98742
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
190326
Background Blur 194.4 img/sec 200.9 img/sec
Face Detection 165.6 img/sec 131.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 8.61 Gpixels/sec 6.49 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 12.2 Gpixels/sec 8.9 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.5 Gpixels/sec 6.34 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.7 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1060 Gpixels/sec 571 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 27590.4 FPS 17240.3 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
G2D Mark 1087 813
DirectX 11 255 FPS 160 FPS
DirectX 12 115 FPS 86 FPS
GPU Compute 10276 Ops/s 8216 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2125 & 1839 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
6628.49
Sources: Blender [9], [10]555 & 521 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-08-14 (Vasujen07)GeekBench237804
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop
No benchmark results yet

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 10192 6797
Image Segmentation (HP) 23343 20808
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31132 15194
Face Detection (HP) 46322 37084
Pose Estimation (Q) 134037 82268
Text Classification (SP) 3319 2863
Machine Translation (HP) 4696 4135
Object Detection (SP) 13038 8559
Depth Estimation (Q) 52089 28330
Style Transfer (SP) 248270 184129
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop and 3080 Ti Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 January 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
GPU Codename GB203-400 GA103 (GN20-E8)
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core i9 12900H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (3rd and 25th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 975 MHz 585-1230 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1500-2410 MHz (configurable) 1125-1590 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 7680 7424
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 232
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 60 58
Tensor Cores 240 232
Ray-tracing Cores 60 58
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 144-231 GPixel/s 108-153 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 360-578 GTexel/s 261-369 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
23-37 TFLOPS
16.7-23.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 80-175 W (configurable) 80-175 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 496 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 22 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 44.35 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
896 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 10.1 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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