NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

23671 points

39% slightly better overall score

16967 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

548 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

394 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

277 FPS

64 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

213 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

404 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

288 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

225 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

163 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9133.30 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

7942.06 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

267906 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

215096 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

257198 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

191283 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2295 MHz

131% significantly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2617 MHz

72% 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

960 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

896 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

360 W

95 W

278% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

293.1 Gigapixels/s

72% significantly higher pixel rate

169.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

879.3 Gigatexels/s

76% significantly higher texture rate

496.9 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10752

2% slightly more shading units

10496

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

2% slightly more texture mapping units

328

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

Identical

112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

4th of 597

14th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January

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 vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5080 has a significantly 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 5080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 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 is faster than the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop.