GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop vs 5080 Laptop
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
GB203-400
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
GB203-400
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 24 GB with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the RTX 5080 Mobile 16 GB that utilizes 60 pipelines and 7680 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 5090 Laptop
- Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 8% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 136 vs 126 FPS
- 22% higher maximum theoretical performance (45.3 vs 37 TFLOPS)
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Features 88 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 37% more shading units (10496 vs 7680)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 212 149 140 111 |
196 136 125 93 |
| The Witcher 3 | 225 201 143 75 |
216 177 134 69 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 293 222 162 84 |
279 214 156 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 167 153 134 83 |
156 146 128 78 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 151 120 97 55 |
135 113 89 49 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 196 190 149 101 |
176 165 132 86 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 135 114 96 63 |
122 103 89 52 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 177 153 110 51 |
155 138 96 46 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 273 257 194 104 |
247 239 183 98 |
| 1080p High | 203 | 187 |
| 1080p Ultra | 173 | 159 |
| 1440p Ultra | 136 | 126 |
| 4K Ultra | 81 | 73 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 25015 | 22033 |
| Solar Bay | 115087 | 99471 |
| Port Royal | 16530 | 14223 |
| Fire Strike | 51145 | 47380 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 47290 | 41208 |
| Night Raid | 177560 | 172035 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 266.5 img/sec | 194.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 196.9 img/sec | 165.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 10.6 Gpixels/sec | 8.61 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 15.2 Gpixels/sec | 12.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 14.4 Gpixels/sec | 11.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.89 Gpixels/sec | 1.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 1150 Gpixels/sec | 1060 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29783 FPS | 27590.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1108 | 1084 |
| DirectX 11 | 266 FPS | 254 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 135 FPS | 115 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11399 Ops/s | 10342 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-08-14 (Vasujen07) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 237804 |
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 | 10192 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 33054 | 23343 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 33652 | 31132 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 67213 | 46322 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 151395 | 134037 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3209 | 3319 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6292 | 4696 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15618 | 13038 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 57894 | 52089 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 272117 | 248270 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop and 5080 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 6, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | GB203-400 | GB203-400 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (1st and 3rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 990-1515 MHz (configurable) | 975 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1515-2160 MHz (configurable) | 1500-2410 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 10496 | 7680 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 328 | 240 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 82 | 60 |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 240 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 82 | 60 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 170-242 GPixel/s | 144-231 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 497-708 GTexel/s | 360-578 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 95-175 W (configurable) | 80-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 378 mm² | 378 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.6 billion | 45.6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.63 MTr/mm² | 120.63 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 28000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 10.1 | 10.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 2.1b |
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