GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada) (55/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 45)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 53)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 45.0 Poor
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 53.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 75605 38278
Night Raid 199650 70978
Port Royal 23275 9606
Solar Bay 161489 63693
Time Spy 33000 15858
Wild Life Extreme 69617 32627

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DirectX 12.2 12.2
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 5000 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High 239 157
1080p Ultra 205 132
1440p Ultra 165 100
4K Ultra 96 57
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 1421339865
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 26720214582
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 1231096931
Far Cry 6 19417115597 14013010964
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 1631089770
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 99836739
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 110927337
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 18717813272
The Witcher 3 27124417290 18415510857

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 43574
Face Detection (HP) 92863 42321
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 9400
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 17325
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 30156
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 3691
Object Detection (SP) 20955 12106
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 140618
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 283979
Text Classification (SP) 3701 3278

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 224.2 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 9.15 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 156 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 1.48 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 6.84 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 23725.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 882.6 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 AD103
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 185Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 March 21, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2295 MHz —
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 1460-2190 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 76
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 76
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 112
Shading Units 10752 9728
Tensor Cores 336 304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 304

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 327 FPS 231 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 99 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 756
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 9393 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 378 mm² 379 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 360 W 80-175 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 45.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 121.11 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature — 95°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 164-245 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 444-666 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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