GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop vs 3080 Laptop
VS
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
GB203-400
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E7)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 24 GB with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month older RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (45.3 vs 21 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 77% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 136 vs 77 FPS
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 212 149 140 111 |
132 87 77 53 |
| The Witcher 3 | 225 201 143 75 |
151 126 90 48 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 293 222 162 84 |
221 172 120 66 |
| Far Cry 6 | 167 153 134 83 |
115 107 85 47 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 151 120 97 55 |
85 72 55 30 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 196 190 149 101 |
104 97 70 46 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 135 114 96 63 |
82 67 51 29 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 177 153 110 51 |
91 80 51 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 273 257 194 104 |
144 131 96 49 |
| 1080p High | 203 | 125 |
| 1080p Ultra | 173 | 104 |
| 1440p Ultra | 136 | 77 |
| 4K Ultra | 81 | 43 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 25015 | 11989 |
| Solar Bay | 115087 | 50311 |
| Port Royal | 16530 | 7199 |
| Fire Strike | 51145 | 29057 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 47290 | 24744 |
| Night Raid | 177560 | 81862 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 266.5 img/sec | 211 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 196.9 img/sec | 123.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 10.6 Gpixels/sec | 5.78 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 15.2 Gpixels/sec | 8.03 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 14.4 Gpixels/sec | 6.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.89 Gpixels/sec | 1.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 1150 Gpixels/sec | 543.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29783 FPS | 17774.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1108 | 625 |
| DirectX 11 | 266 FPS | 145 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 135 FPS | 71 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11399 Ops/s | 7049 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) | 12121 | 6773 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 33054 | 19587 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 33652 | 15553 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 67213 | 35885 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 151395 | 82446 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3209 | 2830 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6292 | 4019 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15618 | 8380 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 57894 | 28597 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 272117 | 184715 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop and 3080 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 6, 2025 | January 12, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | GB203-400 | GA104 (GN20-E7) |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 6800M |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above | - Intel Core i9 12900H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (1st and 34th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 990-1515 MHz (configurable) | 780-1350 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1515-2160 MHz (configurable) | 1245-1710 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 10496 | 6144 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 328 | 192 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 82 | 48 |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 192 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 82 | 48 |
| 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 | 170-242 GPixel/s | 120-164 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 497-708 GTexel/s | 239-328 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 95-175 W (configurable) | 80-165 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 378 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.6 billion | 17.4 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.63 MTr/mm² | 44.39 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 8-16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1500-1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 12000-14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| CUDA | 10.1 | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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