NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, 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
33% slightly better overall score
5925 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

185 FPS
69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS
15 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
80 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS
20 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
112 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
61 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points
3522.98 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
104383 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
98514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz
16% slightly higher core clock speed
952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
6% 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

115 W
45 W
155% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s
112% significantly higher pixel rate
69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s
96% significantly higher texture rate
151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144
84% significantly more shading units
3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
84% significantly more texture mapping units
104

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
84th 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 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop.

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