NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

23671 points

69% significantly better overall score

13945 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

548 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

323 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

277 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

174 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

404 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

241 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

225 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

136 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9133.30 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

6555.01 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

267906 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

179169 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

257198 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

164101 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2295 MHz

135% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2617 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

1500 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

960 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

896 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

360 W

80 W

350% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

293.1 Gigapixels/s

103% significantly higher pixel rate

144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

879.3 Gigatexels/s

144% significantly higher texture rate

360 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10752

40% slightly more shading units

7680

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

40% slightly more texture mapping units

240

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

4th of 597

25th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January

2025 April

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 vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop specs and performance

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

The GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 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 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop.