NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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

19480 points
34% slightly better overall score
14473 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS
125 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
355 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS
44 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
182 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
253 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS
38 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
145 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
7059.26 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
181715 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
172409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz
51% significantly higher core clock speed
1335 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz
40% slightly higher boost clock speed
1695 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s
17% slightly higher memory bandwidth
576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W
120 W
250% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s
20% slightly higher pixel rate
189.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s
47% significantly higher texture rate
515.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
5% slightly more shading units
9728

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
5% slightly more texture mapping units
304

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
112
16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 586
19th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop.

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