NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 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 3080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14204 points

1% slightly better overall score

13945 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

343 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

323 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

174 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

241 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

136 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points

6555.01 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

179169 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

164101 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s

1% slightly higher memory bandwidth

896 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

80 W

337% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

360 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

33% slightly more shading units

7680

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

33% slightly more texture mapping units

240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

23rd of 597

25th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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