GeForce RTX 5090 vs 5080 Laptop
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
GB202-300
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
GB203-400
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB with 170 pipelines and 21760 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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5090
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (104.8 vs 37 TFLOPS)
- Shows 64% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 207 vs 126 FPS
- Includes 16 GB more video memory
- Features 440 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (419K vs 190K)
- Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 1792 vs 896 GB/s
- Has 2.8x more shading units (21760 vs 7680)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 336 247 233 187 |
196 136 125 93 |
| The Witcher 3 | 364 327 237 123 |
216 177 134 69 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 363 265 202 99 |
279 214 156 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 237 202 190 121 |
156 146 128 78 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 249 199 166 97 |
135 113 89 49 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 334 322 260 184 |
176 165 132 86 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 221 185 175 113 |
122 103 89 52 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 261 233 160 77 |
155 138 96 46 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 329 302 238 128 |
247 239 183 98 |
| 1080p High | 299 | 187 |
| 1080p Ultra | 254 | 159 |
| 1440p Ultra | 207 | 126 |
| 4K Ultra | 125 | 73 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 46873 | 22033 |
| Solar Bay | 236689 | 99471 |
| Port Royal | 38202 | 14223 |
| Fire Strike | 87569 | 47380 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 108751 | 41208 |
| Night Raid | 206648 | 172035 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 333 img/sec | 194.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 298.5 img/sec | 165.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 21.7 Gpixels/sec | 8.61 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 33.7 Gpixels/sec | 12.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 34.5 Gpixels/sec | 11.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 2.53 Gpixels/sec | 1.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 2850 Gpixels/sec | 1060 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 59146.9 FPS | 27590.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1410 | 1084 |
| DirectX 11 | 340 FPS | 254 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 179 FPS | 115 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 24383 Ops/s | 10342 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5090
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) | 18948 | 10192 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 55109 | 23343 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 58478 | 31132 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 114685 | 46322 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 344729 | 134037 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4464 | 3319 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 8184 | 4696 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 27802 | 13038 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 85572 | 52089 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 687080 | 248270 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1999 | - |
| Case | Desktop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | GB202-300 | GB203-400 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above |
Desktop GPU rating (#2nd place)
Laptop GPU ranking (#3rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2017 MHz | 975 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2407 MHz | 1500-2410 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 21760 | 7680 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 680 | 240 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 176 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 170 | 60 |
| Tensor Cores | 680 | 240 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 170 | 60 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 96MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 424 GPixel/s | 144-231 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 1637 GTexel/s | 360-578 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 575 W | 80-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 750 mm² | 378 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 92.2 billion | 45.6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 122.93 MTr/mm² | 120.63 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 32 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 28000 Mbps |
| Bus | 512-bit | 256-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 | 12.0 | 10.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 2.1b |
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