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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19471 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

479 FPS

85 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

394 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

225 FPS

12 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

182 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

163 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

7942.06 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

215096 points

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

112

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 597

14th of 597

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 also has a significantly 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 significantly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop.