NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points
14% slightly better overall score
16967 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS
86 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
394 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
213 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS
45 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
288 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
163 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
7942.06 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
215096 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
191283 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz
104% significantly higher core clock speed
990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz
56% significantly higher boost clock speed
1515 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
896 GB/s
32% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W
95 W
342% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s
34% slightly higher pixel rate
169.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s
52% significantly higher texture rate
496.9 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
10496
2% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
328
2% slightly more texture mapping units

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
14th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2025 March

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 4080 vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop specs and performance

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

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop.

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