NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points
0.80% slightly better overall score
13880 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS
15 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
317 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS
173 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
239 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
136 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points
6555.01 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
179169 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
164101 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz
43% significantly higher core clock speed
975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz
13% 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

936.2 GB/s
4% 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

189.8 Gigapixels/s
31% slightly higher pixel rate
144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s
54% significantly higher texture rate
360 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496
36% slightly more shading units
7680

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328
36% slightly more texture mapping units
240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
16% slightly more render output processors
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586
26th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
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 3090 vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop.

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