NVIDIA RTX 5080 Laptop Defeats Predecessor By 19% in Time Spy Benchmark

[GGforever]

The NVIDIA RTX 50-series witnessed quite a contentious launch, to say the least. Hindered by abysmal availability, controversial generational improvement, and whacky marketing tactics by Team Green, it would be safe to say a lot of passionate gamers were left utterly disappointed. That said, while the desktop cards have been the talk of the town as of late, the RTX 50 Laptop counterparts are yet to make headlines. Occasional leaks do appear on the interwebs, the latest one of which seems to indicate the 3D Mark Time Spy performance for the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU. And the results are - well, debatable.

We do know that the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU will feature 7680 CUDA cores, a shockingly modest increase over its predecessor. Considering that we did not get a node shrink this time around, the architectural improvements appear to be rather minimal, going by the tests conducted so far. Of course, the biggest boost in performance will likely be afforded by GDDR7 memory, utilizing a 256-bit bus, compared its predecessor's GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus. In 3D Mark's Time Spy DX12 test, which is somewhat of an outdated benchmark, the RTX 5080 Laptop managed roughly around 21,900 points. The RTX 4080 Laptop, on an average, rakes in around 18,200 points, putting the RTX 5080 Laptop ahead by almost 19%. The RTX 4090 Laptop is also left behind, by around 5%.




Considering that NVIDIA and its partners manage to produce enough RTX 50-powered laptops and price them fairly, a 20% generational improvement is nothing to scoff at, and that is not even considering the AI-powered MFG capabilities that Blackwell offers. That said, the first RTX 50-powered laptops are expected to ship sometime towards the end of this quarter, so we won't have to wait long to find out for ourselves.

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[phints]

This is a laptop, so until we see this benchmark draws the same or less TDP it's meaningless. RTX 5000 is a joke so far since it's the same perf/watt as RTX 4000 might simply be cranking up the power higher.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

And melts the laptop

 

[AusWolf]

The current gen product is faster than the last gen one? No way!

 

[GhostRyder]

I mean, its cool but I am curious on the power draw while doing this. Because with the current desktops variants, they do not seem to be overall more efficient (Or at least much). I wonder if its more efficient at lower clocks and that it will match power form last gen equivalent. But in a laptop I really care about the efficiency because of heat output.

 

[HD64G]

Thing is that the laptop 4090 had a 4080S die and the 4080 laptop had a 4070Ti die. So, those results are not only totally terrible but also deceiving and false marketing. Biggest problem though is the lack of critical opinion in the original post due to the copy-paste from the source. As a PC customer I would like some useful info instead of misleading claims re-posted.

 

[user556]

Yeah, it's a whole different laptop. Not very meaningful without knowing the power consumption ... and noise level, and likelihood of being scorched.