GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop 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 3070 Laptop (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 43)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 34)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 34.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 26725 75605
Night Raid 82499 199650
Port Royal 6247 23275
Solar Bay 45198 161489
Time Spy 10477 33000
Wild Life Extreme 21132 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.6 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.2 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 113 239
1080p Ultra 92 205
1440p Ultra 68 165
4K Ultra 38 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 93845942 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 19914910957 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 80714418 21319213861
Far Cry 6 107967541 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 124786749 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 73584524 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 78654724 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1271148444 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1371128243 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 27790 69068
Face Detection (HP) 31628 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6969 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 17142 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16426 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 3639 7905
Object Detection (SP) 9002 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 74413 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 160005 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2522 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 170.3 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.94 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 113.6 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.16 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.19 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.59 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15131.3 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 467 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6700M —
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 (GN20-E5) GB203-400
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12700Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released January 12, 2021 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) — $999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 780-1215 MHz (configurable) 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1290-1620 MHz (configurable) 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 40 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 112
Shading Units 5120 10752
Tensor Cores 160 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000-14000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500-1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 137 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 62 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 626 1397
GPU Compute 6642 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 392 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 80-150 W (configurable) 360 W
Transistor Count 17.4 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 103-130 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 206-259 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-25(peppew517) GeekBench —
📘 2026-06-30(peppew517) GeekBench —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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