NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11108 points

42789 points

285% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

285 FPS

1019 FPS

734 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

140 FPS

503 FPS

363 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

193 FPS

740 FPS

547 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

110 FPS

425 FPS

315 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5482.15 points

14992.38 points

173% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

159842 points

383325 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

145828 points

380401 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

2017 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2407 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

512 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

422% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

218% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7424

21760

193% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

680

193% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

120% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

34th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2025 January

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 4080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly 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 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 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 5090 over the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop.