GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile (36/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 36)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 32)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 36.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 32.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 25925 75605
Night Raid 96043 199650
Port Royal 6007 23275
Solar Bay 44509 161489
Time Spy 10052 33000
Wild Life Extreme 20472 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4 2.1b
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.2 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 110 239
1080p Ultra 88 205
1440p Ultra 65 165
4K Ultra 36 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 90825737 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 19714710554 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 80684020 21319213861
Far Cry 6 103917439 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 119736445 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 69544224 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 74594525 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1201108043 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1341108141 27124417290

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 226 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.94 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 122.4 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.26 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.45 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.52 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14128.8 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 446.2 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename TU104 (N18E-G3) GB203-400
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 9750Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released January 29, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) — $999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1380 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1590 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 112
Shading Units 2944 10752
Tensor Cores 368 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 139 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 53 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 804 1397
GPU Compute 6463 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 545 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 150 W 360 W
Transistor Count 13.6 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 24.95 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 102 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 293 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 69068
Face Detection (HP) — 92863
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) — 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 43223
Machine Translation (HP) — 7905
Object Detection (SP) — 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) — 202202
Style Transfer (SP) — 349205
Text Classification (SP) — 3701

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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