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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7964 points

8233 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

186 FPS

191 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

Identical

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

133 FPS

139 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

Identical

75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

3690.41 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

126840 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

55th of 597

51st of 597

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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 our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5060 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.