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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU handily outperforms last-gen counterpart in Geekbench despite throttling

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU has been benchmarked on Geekbench (image source: Nvidia)
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU has been benchmarked on Geekbench (image source: Nvidia)
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop model has shown up on Geekbench with 16 GB VRAM and 60 SMs. It offers a decent performance uplift over the RTX 4080 even though it appears to be running well below its maximum boost clock.

Just a day after Nvidia showed off its GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards, its laptop variant has shown up on Geekbench. It powers an 18-inch Alienware Area-51 alongside an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX. For some odd reason, this SKU has just 8 GB of RAM, which is likely the result of a Geekbench error.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU scores 190,326 in Geekbench's OpenCL benchmark. It has 16 GB of VRAM, 60 SMs (7,680 CUDA cores total with 128 CUDA cores per SM), and a maximum frequency of 1.5 GHz. This is clearly throttling because even the last-gen GeForce RTX 4080 could go as high as 2.2 GHz. Despite that, the RTX 5080 offers a 20% generation-over-generation uplift.

Then again, one can attribute a part of this to its faster GDDR7 VRAM. There's more of it compared to last time, too. With no throttling and proper firmware, we can expect the GeForce RTX 5080 to offer a much-higher improvement over its Ada Lovelace-based counterpart.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Geekbench listing (image source: Geekbench)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Geekbench listing (image source: Geekbench)

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Anil Ganti, 2025-01- 8 (Update: 2025-01- 9)