NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop 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 4080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11126 points

16967 points

52% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

285 FPS

394 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

140 FPS

213 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

193 FPS

288 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

110 FPS

163 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5482.15 points

7942.06 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

159842 points

215096 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

145828 points

191283 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1515 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

432 GB/s

896 GB/s

107% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

95 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

386.3 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7424

10496

41% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

328

41% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

34th of 597

14th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2025 March

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 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop 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 4080 Laptop 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 slightly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop at 110 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 5090 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop.