NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11655 points

84% significantly better overall score

6305 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

282 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

136 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

81 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

114 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

62 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

3522.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

104383 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

98514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

150% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

97% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

45 W

611% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

135% significantly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

207% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

161% significantly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

161% significantly more texture mapping units

104

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

32nd of 597

77th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 May

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 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop comparison

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

The GeForce RTX 3080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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