GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs 5070 Laptop
VS
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
GB203-400
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
GB206-300
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile 16 GB with 60 pipelines and 7680 shaders against the RTX 5070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 62%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 59% higher maximum theoretical performance (37 vs 23.2 TFLOPS)
- Shows 43% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 126 vs 88 FPS
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 896 vs 384 GB/s
- Features 96 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 42% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (190K vs 134K)
- Has 67% more shading units (7680 vs 4608)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 196 136 125 93 |
148 95 87 62 |
| The Witcher 3 | 216 177 134 69 |
166 140 101 57 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 279 214 156 82 |
242 191 136 79 |
| Far Cry 6 | 156 146 128 78 |
128 118 93 57 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 135 113 89 49 |
98 79 61 34 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 176 165 132 86 |
124 111 80 54 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 122 103 89 52 |
88 77 59 31 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 155 138 96 46 |
104 92 60 27 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 247 239 183 98 |
165 150 113 59 |
| 1080p High | 187 | 140 |
| 1080p Ultra | 159 | 117 |
| 1440p Ultra | 126 | 88 |
| 4K Ultra | 73 | 51 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 22033 | 13620 |
| Solar Bay | 99471 | 60191 |
| Port Royal | 14223 | 8718 |
| Fire Strike | 47380 | 35708 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 41208 | 24700 |
| Night Raid | 172035 | 124794 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 194.4 img/sec | 213.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 165.6 img/sec | 130.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 8.61 Gpixels/sec | 4.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 12.2 Gpixels/sec | 6.23 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 11.5 Gpixels/sec | 7.41 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.7 Gpixels/sec | 1.46 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 1060 Gpixels/sec | 661.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 27590.4 FPS | 19395.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1084 | 895 |
| DirectX 11 | 254 FPS | 185 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 115 FPS | 91 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 10342 Ops/s | 7051 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-08-14 (Vasujen07) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 237804 |
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Levi) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 141514 |
| 📘 2026-04-11 (Cyrus) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 131880 |
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) | 10192 | 8984 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 23343 | 26270 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 31132 | 24606 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 46322 | 48283 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 134037 | 98180 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3319 | 3260 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4696 | 5770 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 13038 | 11172 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 52089 | 43305 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 248270 | 165555 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop and 5070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | GB203-400 | GB206-300 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (3rd and 16th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 975 MHz | 890-1410 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1500-2410 MHz (configurable) | 1410-2520 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 | 68-121 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 360-578 GTexel/s | 203-363 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-175 W (configurable) | 50-125 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 378 mm² | 181 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.6 billion | 21.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.63 MTr/mm² | 120.99 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 24000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 10.1 | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 2.1b |
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