NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7890 points
8206 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

185 FPS
192 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS
95 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS
139 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS
75 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points
3690.41 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points
126840 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points
120026 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz
2280 MHz
105% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
2497 MHz
61% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
Identical
448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W
26% slightly lower TDP
145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s
23% slightly higher pixel rate
119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
1% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144
60% significantly more shading units
3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
60% significantly more texture mapping units
120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
100% significantly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

59th of 586
51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.

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