NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A6000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

NVIDIA RTX A6000

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13880 points

6% slightly better overall score

13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

317 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

315 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

173 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

158 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

239 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

223 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

136 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

123 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6555.01 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

5294.30 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

179169 points

193937 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

164101 points

165252 points

0.70% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1410 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1800 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

896 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

768 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

274% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

144 Gigapixels/s

201.6 Gigapixels/s

40% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

360 Gigatexels/s

604.8 Gigatexels/s

68% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7680

10752

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

336

40% 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

26th of 586

28th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop vs RTX A6000 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop graphics card is better than the RTX A6000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the RTX A6000 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 RTX A6000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the RTX A6000 at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop is faster than the RTX A6000.