GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs 4070 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile 16 GB with 60 pipelines and 7680 shaders against the 1 year and 10 months older RTX 4070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 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 4070 Mobile over RTX 5080 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 78%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 85% higher maximum theoretical performance (37 vs 20 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 56% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 126 vs 81 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
196
136
125
93
139
89
77
56
The Witcher 3
216
177
134
69
164
129
95
53
Counter-Strike 2
279
214
156
82
236
183
130
71
Far Cry 6
156
146
128
78
121
109
87
51
Hogwarts Legacy
135
113
89
49
91
77
60
28
CoD: Modern Warfare III
176
165
132
86
111
105
77
51
Ghost of Tsushima
122
103
89
52
85
69
53
29
Cyberpunk 2077
155
138
96
46
99
84
53
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
247
239
183
98
147
137
100
53
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 187 133
1080p Ultra 159 109
1440p Ultra 126 81
4K Ultra 73 46
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
22627
Time Spy 22033 12514
Solar Bay 99471 54815
Port Royal 14223 7416
Fire Strike 47380 30057
Wild Life Extreme 41208 23262
Night Raid 172035 113672
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 158.5 img/sec
Face Detection 165.6 img/sec 116.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 8.61 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 12.2 Gpixels/sec 5.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.5 Gpixels/sec 6.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.7 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1060 Gpixels/sec 528.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 27590.4 FPS 16372.3 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
26294
G2D Mark 1087 766
DirectX 11 255 FPS 177 FPS
DirectX 12 115 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 10276 Ops/s 8365 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2125 & 13217 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
6628.49
3585.95
Sources: Blender [9], [10]555 & 2189 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 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)GeekBench122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)GeekBench35869

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
25636
GB6 ML Half Precision
42495
GB6 ML Quantized
19809
Image Classification (SP) 10192 8642
Image Segmentation (HP) 23343 20635
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31132 26378
Face Detection (HP) 46322 39776
Pose Estimation (Q) 134037 105983
Text Classification (SP) 3319 2995
Machine Translation (HP) 4696 4507
Object Detection (SP) 13038 10198
Depth Estimation (Q) 52089 41078
Style Transfer (SP) 248270 190315
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop and 4070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB203-400 AD106 (GN21-X6)
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (3rd and 22nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 975 MHz 735-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1500-2410 MHz (configurable) 1230-2175 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 7680 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 60 36
Tensor Cores 240 144
Ray-tracing Cores 60 36
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 144-231 GPixel/s 59-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 360-578 GTexel/s 177-313 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
23-37 TFLOPS
11.3-20 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 80-175 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 186 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 123.12 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
896 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 10.1 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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