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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU or 3080 Mobile (for laptops, GN20-E7) is the fastest graphics card for notebooks in early 2021. It is based on the GA104-775-A1 Ampere chip and offers 8 or 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus. It supports PCIe 4.0 and will be available in different variants from 80 - 150 Watt (TGP) (80, 90, 115, 125, 135, 145 and 150+ Watt). As package the notebook graphic card uses GB5-256 and the chip size is 40x40mm. The GPU supports eDP 1.4b to connect the internal monitor.

There is no more Max-Q variant (formerly used for the low power variants) but every OEM can choose to implement Max-Q technologies (Dynamic Boost, Whispermode).

The performance depends on the TGP setting and cooling of the laptop. At the same TGP level the RTX3080 should be faster than the old top model, the RTX 2080 Super Mobile and similar to the desktop RTX 3070. This means, the GPU should be well suited for 4k gaming or QHD with high frame rates. The similar named RTX 3080 desktop card is significantly faster.

The GA104 chip offers 6,144 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 3,072 INT32 ALUs). With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).

The GA104 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (Codename GN21-X6) is a high-end laptop GPU. It is based on the AD106 chip and use the Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4070 offers 4,608 cores (of the 7,680 in the AD106) and a 128 Bit memory bus. The RTX 4070 mobile uses 8 GB GDDR6 dedicated graphics memory with a clock speed of 16 Gbps (effective). The TGP (Total Graphics Power) can be configured between 35 and 115 Watt (+ 15-25 Watt Dynamic Boost from the CPU) leading to different performance levels (the desktop RTX 4070 Ti uses 285 Watt for comparisons). The boost clock speed ranges from 1230 MHz (at 35 Watt TGP) up to 2175 MHz (115W). Therefore, the performance is also depending a lot on the power setting used for the RTX 4080 mobile in the laptop.

The performance should be below the desktop RTX 4070 Ti and therefore best suited for 2k and maximum details for demanding games of 2022.

Our synthetic benchmarks of an average RTX 4070 mobile show a performance slightly below a mobile RTX 3080 Ti. However, with reduced power limits, the performance is clearly suffering, e.g. only 70% in Time Spy for a version with 60W TDP. In games, a fast RTX 4070 is best suited for QHD gaming, where some very demanding games wont reach the 60 fps limit (and may have to run at 1080p, reduced settings or using DLSS). See below for detailed gaming benchmarks of various cards.

The RTX 4070 offers 144 tensor cores (4th gen) that enable DLSS 3 including frame generation for supported games. Furthermore, 36 raytracing cores (4rd gen) can be used for raytracing effects in supported games.

The AD106 chip is manufactured in 5nm at TSMC (4N process).

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
GeForce RTX 4000 Laptop GPU Series
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti compare 10752 @ 1.56 - 1.86 GHz384 Bit @ 21000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3090 compare 10496 @ 1.4 - 1.7 GHz384 Bit @ 19500 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti compare 10240 @ 1.37 - 1.67 GHz384 Bit @ 19000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB compare 8960/ cores @ 1.26 - 1.71 GHz384 Bit @ 19000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 compare 8704 @ 1.45 - 1.71 GHz320 Bit @ 19000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti compare 6144 @ 1.58 - 1.77 GHz256 Bit @ 19000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU compare 7424 @ 0.98 - 1.59 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 compare 5888 @ 1.5 - 1.73 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU 6144 @ 0.78 - 1.25 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti compare 4864 @ 1.41 - 1.67 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU compare 5888 @ 0.92 - 1.48 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU compare 5120 @ 0.78 - 1.29 GHz256 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3060 compare 3584 @ 1.32 - 1.78 GHz192 Bit @ 15000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q compare 6144 @ 0.78 - 1.25 GHz256 Bit @ 6000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q compare 5120 @ 1.29 GHz256 Bit
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU compare 3840 @ 0.82 - 1.7 GHz192 Bit @ 14000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q compare 3840 @ 1.28 GHz192 Bit
GeForce RTX 3050 compare 2560 @ 1.55 - 1.78 GHz128 Bit Bit @ 1750 MHz
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU compare 2560 @ 1.22 - 1.49 GHz128 Bit @ 12000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU compare 2560 @ 1.24 - 1.49 GHz96 Bit @ 12000 MHz
GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU compare 1792 64 Bit
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU compare 2048 @ 1.24 - 1.5 GHz128 Bit @ 12000 MHz
GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU compare 9728 @ 1.34 - 2.04 GHz256 Bit @ 20000 MHz
GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU compare 7424 @ 1.86 - 2.28 GHz192 Bit @ 20000 MHz
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU 4608 @ 1.61 - 2.18 GHz128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU compare 3072 @ 1.55 - 2.37 GHz128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU compare 2560 @ 2.37 GHz96 Bit @ 16000 MHz
CodenameGN20-E7 GA104GN21-X6
ArchitectureAmpereAda Lovelace
Pipelines6144 - unified4608 - unified
TMUs192144
ROPs9648
Raytracing Cores4836
Core Speed780 - 1100 - 1245 - 1710 (Boost) MHz1605 - 2175 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed14000 effective = 1750 MHz16000 effective = 2000 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory16 GB8 GB
Shared Memorynono
Memory Bandwidth448 GB/s256 GB/s
APIDirectX 12_2, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6DirectX 12 Ultimate, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3
Power Consumption150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Transistors17.4 Billion
Die Size 392 mm²
technology8 nm5 nm
PCIe4.04.0 x16
DisplaysHDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a
FeaturesNVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, Resizable BAR, NVIDIA Broadcast, NVIDIA Ansel, NVIDIA ShadowPlay®, NVIDIA G-SYNC®, Advanced Optimus, Nvidia Max-Q, Dynamic Boost, VR-ready, Nvidia Omniverse
Notebook Sizelargelarge
Date of Announcement12.01.2021 03.01.2023
Tensor / AI Cores144
Theoretical Performance15.6 TFLOPS FP16, 15.6 TFLOPS FP32
AI GPU321 TOPS INT8
CacheL2: 32 MB
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.nvidia.com
PredecessorGeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
10.2 pt (31%)
AMD Radeon HD 8180
0.05426 -99%
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
9.52 -7%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
9.53 -7%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop)
9.53 -7%
Intel Arc A770M
9.57 -6%
AMD Radeon RX 7600M
9.61 -6%
AMD Radeon RX 7600S
9.69 -5%
AMD Radeon RX 6800S
9.92 -3%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
9.93 -3%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
10.1 -1%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
10.2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
10.4 2%
AMD Radeon RX 6700M
10.4 2%
AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT
10.8 6%
AMD Radeon 8060S
11.1 9%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
11.2 10%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU
11.6 14%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop)
12.3 21%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
12.3 21%
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
12.8 25%
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
19 86%
max:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
33.3 226%
0%
100%
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Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
11.2 pt (34%)
AMD Radeon HD 8180
0.05426 -100%
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AMD Radeon RX 7600S
9.69 -13%
AMD Radeon RX 6800S
9.92 -11%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
9.93 -11%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
10.1 -10%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
10.2 -9%
AMD Radeon RX 6700M
10.4 -7%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
10.4 -7%
AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT
10.8 -4%
AMD Radeon 8060S
11.1 -1%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
11.2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU
11.6 4%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
12.3 10%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop)
12.3 10%
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
12.8 14%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (Laptop)
14.9 33%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU
15.5 38%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop
16.7 49%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
17.3 54%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
18.3 63%
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
19 70%
max:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
33.3 197%
0%
100%
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3DMark - 3DMark Speed Way Score
min: 2495     avg: 2541     median: 2545.5 (17%)     max: 2578 Points
min: 1333     avg: 2818     median: 2900 (20%)     max: 3166 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Steel Nomad
2337 Points (16%)
min: 1522     avg: 2538     median: 2638 (18%)     max: 2991 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Steel Nomad Light
10323 Points (24%)
min: 9949     avg: 11867     median: 12189 (28%)     max: 13010 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Unlimited
min: 58406     avg: 69018     median: 66168 (33%)     max: 81508 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited
min: 20061     avg: 22847     median: 21712 (25%)     max: 26393 Points
min: 17684     avg: 21363     median: 22084 (26%)     max: 24275 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Solar Bay
42886 Points (20%)
min: 44190     avg: 53817     median: 54367.5 (25%)     max: 60164 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 13393     avg: 22296     median: 22750 (34%)     max: 27685 Points
min: 11910     avg: 25386     median: 26013 (39%)     max: 29580 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 16455     avg: 27420     median: 27194 (25%)     max: 32366 Points
min: 12242     avg: 29140     median: 30051 (28%)     max: 33451 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics
min: 40654     avg: 137205     median: 79586.5 (9%)     max: 462145 Points
min: 93493     avg: 292013     median: 306567 (34%)     max: 456086 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
min: 6499     avg: 10435     median: 10365 (28%)     max: 13067 Points
min: 5339     avg: 11732     median: 12024.5 (32%)     max: 13871 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 6407     avg: 10681     median: 10752 (22%)     max: 13210 Points
min: 5012     avg: 11609     median: 11959.5 (24%)     max: 13391 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
min: 444648     avg: 551636     median: 544242 (55%)     max: 650505 Points
min: 534989     avg: 618710     median: 622222 (63%)     max: 718215 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Graphics
min: 78873     avg: 160168     median: 105728 (12%)     max: 415335 Points
min: 105935     avg: 350834     median: 369414 (43%)     max: 481630 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 30210     avg: 47565     median: 49494 (47%)     max: 65479 Points
min: 34191     avg: 60327     median: 61871.5 (58%)     max: 70329 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 38816     avg: 116297     median: 107695 (26%)     max: 192950 Points
min: 54238     avg: 146466     median: 157542 (39%)     max: 193851 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Night Raid
min: 27201     avg: 36576     median: 36125 (34%)     max: 52124 Points
min: 48102     avg: 57171     median: 56246 (53%)     max: 69098 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Night Raid Graphics Score
min: 33157     avg: 62060     median: 56082.5 (22%)     max: 114808 Points
min: 84468     avg: 120710     median: 128429 (49%)     max: 148174 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 22428     avg: 29044     median: 29220 (35%)     max: 32922 Points