GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada) (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 31)
Why choose Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (80 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 80.0 Very Good WINNER
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 31.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 75605 —
Night Raid 199650 —
Port Royal 23275 —
Solar Bay 161489 —
Time Spy 33000 —
Wild Life Extreme 69617 —

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 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 500 Laptop (Ada)
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

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 20606
Face Detection (HP) 92863 22815
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 4779
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 13987
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 13345
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 3693
Object Detection (SP) 20955 5970
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 35896
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 89098
Text Classification (SP) 3701 2802

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 111.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 2.81 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 62 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 3.09 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 2.17 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 8618.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 247.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 AD107
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 155Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 February 26, 2024
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2295 MHz —
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 1425-2240 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 16
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 12MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 32
Shading Units 10752 2048
Tensor Cores 336 64
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 256-bit 64-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 327 FPS 86 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 52 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 534
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 4551 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 378 mm² 159 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 360 W 35-60 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 118.87 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 46-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 91-143 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada)
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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