NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

13945 points

205% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

323 FPS

210 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

174 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

241 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

136 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

6555.01 points

178% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

179169 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

164101 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

975 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

896 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

144 Gigapixels/s

110% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

360 Gigatexels/s

110% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

7680

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

240

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

25th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2025 April

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 3060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 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, both the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop and the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.