GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti Laptop (42/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 37)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 42)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 37.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 42.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 30852 75605
Night Raid 98742 199650
Port Royal 8091 23275
Solar Bay 56131 161489
Time Spy 12862 33000
Wild Life Extreme 26346 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.6 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.2 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 135 239
1080p Ultra 111 205
1440p Ultra 83 165
4K Ultra 47 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1161067849 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 23818112972 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 99905727 21319213861
Far Cry 6 1231118851 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 143918157 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 87705629 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 95755730 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 15013810357 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1641369855 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 28330 69068
Face Detection (HP) 37084 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6797 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 20808 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15194 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 4135 7905
Object Detection (SP) 8559 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 82268 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 184129 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2863 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 200.9 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.9 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 131.2 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.2 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.34 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 6.49 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 17240.3 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 571 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GA103 (GN20-E8) GB203-400
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released January 1, 2022 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 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 585-1230 MHz (configurable) 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1125-1590 MHz (configurable) 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 58 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 58 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 112
Shading Units 7424 10752
Tensor Cores 232 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 232 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 160 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 86 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 813 1397
GPU Compute 8216 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 496 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 80-175 W (configurable) 360 W
Transistor Count 22 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 44.35 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 108-153 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 261-369 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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