GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia N1 (16SM)
[ VERDICT ]
Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)
GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia N1 (16SM) (46/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.
Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
- + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 31)
Why choose Nvidia N1 (16SM):
- + Higher Efficiency score (97 vs 48)
Benchmark Performance Comparison
Normalized Lab Scores| Benchmark | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | 48.0 Poor | 97.0 Excellent WINNER |
| Gaming | 88.0 Very Good WINNER | 31.0 Poor |
Detailed Technical Specifications
3D Mark
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Strike | 75605 | — |
| Night Raid | 199650 | — |
| Port Royal | 23275 | — |
| Solar Bay | 161489 | — |
| Time Spy | 33000 | — |
| Wild Life Extreme | 69617 | — |
API
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| CUDA | 12.0 | 12.1 |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | — |
| DirectX | 12.2 | — |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | — |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | — |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | — |
Games
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p High | 239 | — |
| 1080p Ultra | 205 | — |
| 1440p Ultra | 165 | — |
| 4K Ultra | 96 | — |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 250244197135 | — |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 31723817887 | — |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21319213861 | — |
| Far Cry 6 | 19417115597 | — |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 250186179138 | — |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 16614212682 | — |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 18515212467 | — |
| Margin of Error | Low | — |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 306276214111 | — |
| The Witcher 3 | 27124417290 | — |
GeekBench 6 ML
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| API | OpenCL | — |
| Background Blur | 319.6 img/sec | — |
| Edge Detection | 19.5 Gpixels/sec | — |
| Face Detection | 225 img/sec | — |
| Feature Matching | 2.33 Gpixels/sec | — |
| Gaussian Blur | 20.4 Gpixels/sec | — |
| Horizon Detection | 13.6 Gpixels/sec | — |
| Particle Physics | 43676.6 FPS | — |
| Stereo Matching | 1750 Gpixels/sec | — |
General
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell (N1x) |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Case | Desktop | Laptop |
| GPU Codename | GB203-400 | GB20B |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | — |
| Purpose | Gaming | Professional |
| Recommended CPU | -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above | — |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | June 1, 2026 |
| Segment | High-end | Entry-level |
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Base Clock | 2295 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2617 MHz | 2418 MHz |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 84 | 16 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 50MB shared |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 84 | 16 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 24 |
| Shading Units | 10752 | 2048 |
| Tensor Cores | 336 | 64 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 336 | 128 |
Memory
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
| Effective Memory Speed | 30000 Mbps | — |
| Memory Clock | 1875 MHz | — |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | — |
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | System Shared |
Passmark Graphics
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX 11 | 327 FPS | — |
| DirectX 12 | 145 FPS | — |
| G2D Mark | 1397 | — |
| GPU Compute | 19034 Ops/s | — |
Physical
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Die Size | 378 mm² | — |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| TGP | 360 W | — |
| Transistor Count | 45.6 billion | — |
| Transistor Density | 120.63 MTr/mm² | — |
Raw Performance
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Fill Rate | 293 GPixel/s | 58 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 879 GTexel/s | 310 GTexel/s |
Recent User Tests
| Specification | GeForce RTX 5080 | Nvidia N1 (16SM) |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Benchmark | — |
| 📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) | Cinebench 2024 | — |
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