Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
142
94
84
58
189
134
125
96
The Witcher 3
166
137
100
53
206
183
130
71
Counter-Strike 2
238
188
131
74
288
210
158
83
Far Cry 6
125
116
93
53
158
146
128
79
Hogwarts Legacy
94
79
59
30
134
109
86
50
COD Modern Warfare 3
117
108
80
51
176
167
128
85
Ghost of Tsushima
85
71
55
30
121
101
85
51
Cyberpunk 2077
99
89
56
27
153
137
95
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
156
141
106
57
252
236
180
98
Avg FPS
1080p High136186
1080p Ultra114158
1440p Ultra85124
4K Ultra4873
DeviationLowMedium

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
14096
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
22374
Time Spy1370121794
Solar Bay6321492888
Port Royal859514027
Fire Strike3761246885
Night Raid111626175963
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
127848
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
190326
Background Blur209.1 frames/s194.4 frames/s
Face Detection134.3 frames/s165.6 frames/s
Horizon Detection4.67 Gpix/sec8.61 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection6.13 Gpix/sec12.2 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur6.39 Gpix/sec11.5 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.36 Gpix/sec1.7 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching607.8 Gpix/sec1060 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics18827.5 fps27590.4 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
20940
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
28502
G2D Mark11521139
DirectX 11199 fps254 fps
DirectX 1277 fps116 fps
GPU Compute10977 Ops/s12703 Ops/s
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
20375
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
25636
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
37358
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
42495
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
15190
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
19809
Image Classification (SP)836210192
Image Segmentation (HP)2283123343
Horizon Detection2237531132
Face Detection (HP)4195546322
Pose Estimation (Q)84685134037
Text Classification (SP)32963319
Machine Translation (HP)50834696
Object Detection (SP)1102313038
Depth Estimation (Q)3881752089
Style Transfer (SP)155103248270
FrameworkONNXONNX
BackendDirectMLDirectML

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
3702.71
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
6817.09

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced April, 15, 2025 January, 7, 2025
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Codename GB206-250 GB203-400

GPU

GPU Frequency 2280 MHz 975 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2497 MHz 1500-2410 MHz
Shader Units 3840 7680
TMUs 120 240
ROPs 48 96
Execution Units 30 60
Ray Tracing Cores 30 60
Tensor Cores 120 240
L1 cache 128 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 32000 KB/core 64 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 120 Gpix/sec 144-231 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 300 GTex/s 360-578 GTex/s
FLOPS 19.2 TFLOPS 23-37 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 145 W 80-175 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor Size 181 mm² 378 mm²
Transistor count 21.9 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor density 120.99 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR7 GDDR7
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Bus 128 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s 28000 MB/s
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
448 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
896 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA 12.0 10.1
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

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