NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop 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 3080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7964 points

13945 points

75% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

186 FPS

323 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

174 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

133 FPS

241 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

136 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

6555.01 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

179169 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points

164101 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

896 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

80 W

43% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s

360 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

7680

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

240

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

55th 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 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a slightly 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 3080 Laptop 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 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.