GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada) (40/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 33)
Why choose Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (55 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 55.0 Below Average WINNER
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 33.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 75605 20658
Night Raid 199650 51077
Port Royal 23275 5210
Solar Bay 161489 36647
Time Spy 33000 8373
Wild Life Extreme 69617 14678

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High 239 104
1080p Ultra 205 83
1440p Ultra 165 61
4K Ultra 96 34
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 85735336
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 18713510149
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 71663617
Far Cry 6 19417115597 97866937
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 117736041
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 68493724
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 67554223
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 1131037337
The Witcher 3 27124417290 1301037639

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 30150
Face Detection (HP) 92863 29211
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 7093
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 14759
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 23321
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 3464
Object Detection (SP) 20955 8181
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 87917
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 167055
Text Classification (SP) 3701 3395

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 196.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 5.54 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 118.9 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 1.4 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 6.07 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 4.22 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 17661.3 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 573 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 AD106
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 165Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 March 21, 2023
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2295 MHz —
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 1165-2160 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 36
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 32MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 36
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 48
Shading Units 10752 4608
Tensor Cores 336 144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 144

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 327 FPS 141 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 79 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 542
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 6048 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 378 mm² 188 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 360 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 121.81 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature — 95°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 56-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 168-311 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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