NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

16967 points

46% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

394 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

213 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

288 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

163 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

7942.06 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

215096 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

191283 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1515 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

896 GB/s

17% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

95 W

236% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

10496

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

328

20% slightly more texture mapping units

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

32nd of 587

14th of 587

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 March

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 5090 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3080 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3080.