NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

11108 points

56% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

161 FPS

285 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

140 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

193 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

110 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

5482.15 points

134% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

159842 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

145828 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1290 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

110 W

127% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

386.3 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

24.72 TFLOPS

145% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

7424

152% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

232

26% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586

34th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2080.