GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile (25/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

25/100
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GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 28.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 23.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 21459 87569
Night Raid 69008 206648
Port Royal 1558 38202
Solar Bay 19248 236689
Time Spy 7137 46873
Wild Life Extreme 13912 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 6.1 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4 2.1b
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 83 299
1080p Ultra 66 254
1440p Ultra 47 207
4K Ultra 25 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 66563928 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 1551128037 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 53492813 26123316077
Far Cry 6 81715629 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 97604930 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 51412816 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 56423017 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 88815430 329302238128
The Witcher 3 103795729 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 13518 85572
Face Detection (HP) 6946 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1863 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 3814 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9767 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 1365 8184
Object Detection (SP) 2518 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 49863 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 99268 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1259 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 151.7 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.71 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 71.7 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.29 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.51 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5989.1 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 214.4 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GP104 GB202-300
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 8750Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released August 15, 2016 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) — $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1556 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1733 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 2560 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 10008 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1251 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 102 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 42 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 731 1410
GPU Compute 5903 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 314 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 150 W 575 W
Transistor Count 7.2 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 22.93 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 111 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 277 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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