GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile vs RTX 3080 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking91not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.64no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGA104GB206
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores61444608
Core clock speed1110 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6362.9
Floating-point processing power18.98 TFLOPS23.22 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs192144
Tensor Cores192144
Ray Tracing Cores4836

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s507.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.610.1

Pros & cons summary


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
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