NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is high-end desktop graphics card based on the Ampere generation. It uses the big GA102 chip and offers 8,704 shaders and 12 GB GDDR6X graphics memory. Compared to the older 10 GB model, the 12 GB model offers more bandwidth and therefore a higher TDP.

The gaming performance in 4k is clearly better than the old GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (approximately 15% faster). Therefore, even demanding games should run with maximum detail settings in 4k. Enabling raytracing will however reduce the framerate and therefore maximum details won't be playable. 

The RTX3080 is produced in 8nm at Samsung and rated at 350 Watt.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop is a mobile graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, unveiled at CES 2025. It is based on the GB205 chip, featuring 5,888 shader/CUDA cores clocked at 847-1995 MHz (depending on the model) and 12 GB of GDDR7 memory with a 192-bit interface. The model also has 46 RT-cores, as well as 80 ROPs.

As a novelty, Blackwell offers support for Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) with DLSS4, thanks to the 5th generation of Tensor cores.

Performance

As our tests show, the RTX 5070 Ti laptop is 23% faster than the standard RTX 5070 laptop on average in benchmarks. Gaming performance delta is lower; here, the RTX 5070 Ti laptop is only 15% faster on average than the RTX 5070 laptop. The desktop counterpart, the RTX 5070 Ti, is 34% faster. Furthermore, with the mentioned Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) you can get impressive frame rates, but keep latency in mind.

Power consumption

The GB205 chip is manufactured at TSMC in the 4N (custom 4NP 5nm) process. The maximum allowed TGP for this model is 140 watts (including Dynamic Boost).

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop is a mobile graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which was unveiled at CES 2025. It is based on the GB206 chip, featuring 4,608 shader/CUDA cores clocked at 908-2520 MHz (depending on the model). The graphics memory used is 8 GB GDDR7 with a 128-bit memory bus. The RTX 5070 features 36 RT-cores and 48 ROPs. 

Performance

Our tests show that the RTX 5070 Laptop is negligibly faster than the previous RTX 4070 Laptop (1-3%) in games and up to ~5% faster in benchmarks. However, MFG (2x, 3x, and 4x) and DLSS support can help the 5070 to ensure higher and smoother frame rates. The desktop counterpart is 15-20% faster, depending on the resolution (without accounting for DLSS and MFG).

Power consumption

The GB206 chip is manufactured in the current TSMC 4N process. The total graphics power of this model ranges from 50 to 100 watts.