NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13945 points

16967 points

21% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

323 FPS

394 FPS

71 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

174 FPS

213 FPS

39 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

288 FPS

47 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

136 FPS

163 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6555.01 points

7942.06 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

179169 points

215096 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

164101 points

191283 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

990 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1515 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

896 GB/s

Identical

896 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

144 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

360 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7680

10496

36% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

328

36% 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

25th of 597

14th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop at 95 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop.