GeForce RTX 5080 vs Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop (25/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 13)
Why choose Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (71 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 71.0 Good WINNER
Gaming 88.0 Very Good WINNER 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Fire Strike 75605 10265
Night Raid 199650 38312
Port Royal 23275 625
Solar Bay 161489 13710
Time Spy 33000 3022
Wild Life Extreme 69617 4053

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
CUDA 12.0 8.6
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 2
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 A500 Laptop
1080p High 239 36
1080p Ultra 205 26
1440p Ultra 165 19
4K Ultra 96 9
CoD: Modern Warfare III 250244197135 35271912
Counter-Strike 2 31723817887 66413012
Cyberpunk 2077 21319213861 241710-
Far Cry 6 19417115597 37372612
Forza Horizon 5 250186179138 47241912
Ghost of Tsushima 16614212682 181411-
Hogwarts Legacy 18515212467 231414-
Margin of Error Low Medium
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 306276214111 40352111
The Witcher 3 27124417290 322620-

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 69068 12079
Face Detection (HP) 92863 14319
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15441 3298
Image Segmentation (HP) 47173 8358
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43223 6219
Machine Translation (HP) 7905 3163
Object Detection (SP) 20955 3768
Pose Estimation (Q) 202202 22995
Style Transfer (SP) 349205 53139
Text Classification (SP) 3701 2226

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 319.6 img/sec 62.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 19.5 Gpixels/sec 2.11 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 225 img/sec 35.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 20.4 Gpixels/sec 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 13.6 Gpixels/sec 1.62 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 43676.6 FPS 5502.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 1750 Gpixels/sec 185.1 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB203-400 GA107S
Launch price (MSRP) $999 —
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above -Intel Core i7 12700Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 March 22, 2022
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Base Clock 2295 MHz 370-890 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 745-1710 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 2MB 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 A500 Laptop
Bus 256-bit 64-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 30000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1875 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
DirectX 11 327 FPS 40 FPS
DirectX 12 145 FPS 38 FPS
G2D Mark 1397 411
GPU Compute 19034 Ops/s 2901 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Die Size 378 mm² 200 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TGP 360 W 20-60 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 8.7 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 43.5 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 293 GPixel/s 24-55 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 879 GTexel/s 48-109 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5080 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) Cinebench 2024 —

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