Once every two years or so, technology enthusiasts like ourselves have our sights pinned on what the GPU giants have in store for us. That moment is here, with both NVIDIA and AMD unveiling their Blackwell and RDNA 4 products respectively. NVIDIA has also announced its laptop offerings, with the RTX 5080 Laptop attempting to rule the mainstream high-performance segment. Now, barely a day or two after launch, we already have a rough idea of how mobile Blackwell is going to perform.
The leaked Geekbench OpenCL results, which comes courtesy of the Alienware Area-51 laptop, reveals how well the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU performs in a 175-watt configuration. According to the numbers, the RTX 5080 Laptop managed to barely exceed the 190,000-points barrier, putting it miles ahead of its predecessor which managed around 160,000. Interestingly, as the headline notes, the RTX 4090 Laptop was also left behind, which scores around 180,000 points on average, although systems with beefier cooling setups can post higher numbers.
That said, it must be kept in mind that consumer Blackwell has more tricks up its sleeve than just raw performance. With AI-driven wizardry such as DLSS 4.0, the RTX 50-series cards can punch well above their weight class, even in scenarios where raw performance fails to deliver. With the official launch set for March, we do have a few more months of waiting to do before being able to test the systems ourselves. Until then, be sure to take leaked benchmarks with a fair amount of skepticism.
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The leaked Geekbench OpenCL results, which comes courtesy of the Alienware Area-51 laptop, reveals how well the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU performs in a 175-watt configuration. According to the numbers, the RTX 5080 Laptop managed to barely exceed the 190,000-points barrier, putting it miles ahead of its predecessor which managed around 160,000. Interestingly, as the headline notes, the RTX 4090 Laptop was also left behind, which scores around 180,000 points on average, although systems with beefier cooling setups can post higher numbers.
That said, it must be kept in mind that consumer Blackwell has more tricks up its sleeve than just raw performance. With AI-driven wizardry such as DLSS 4.0, the RTX 50-series cards can punch well above their weight class, even in scenarios where raw performance fails to deliver. With the official launch set for March, we do have a few more months of waiting to do before being able to test the systems ourselves. Until then, be sure to take leaked benchmarks with a fair amount of skepticism.
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