NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6963 points

10% slightly better overall score

6305 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

159 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

136 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

81 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

112 FPS

114 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

72 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

62 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

3522.98 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

104383 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

98514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

45 W

455% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

107% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

3328

13% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

76% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

68th of 597

77th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 2080 has a significantly 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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 is better than the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop.