NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile sales 6 January 2019. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 384.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 39.00% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	105
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	9.48
Architecture	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	N18E-G3 TU104
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years old)
Current price	$2003	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2944	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1380 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1590 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	13,600 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	292.6	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	384.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	No outputs
G-SYNC support	+

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131
CUDA	7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 2080 Mobile 39.00

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

RTX 2080 Mobile 15107

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 2080 Mobile 68525

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 2080 Mobile 34897

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 2080 Mobile 25436

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 2080 Mobile 139346

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

RTX 2080 Mobile 458810

SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase

Benchmark coverage: 2%

RTX 2080 Mobile 122

SPECviewperf 12 - Maya

This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.

Benchmark coverage: 2%

RTX 2080 Mobile 161

SPECviewperf 12 - 3ds Max

This part of SPECviewperf 12 benchmark emulates work with 3DS Max, executing eleven tests in various use scenarios, including architectural modeling and animation for computer games.

Benchmark coverage: 1%

RTX 2080 Mobile 207

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	143
1440p	94
4K	65

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

65−70

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	90
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	87
Battlefield 5	132
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	171
Cyberpunk 2077	65−70
Far Cry 5	104
Far Cry New Dawn	102
Forza Horizon 4	147
Hitman 3	183
Horizon Zero Dawn	121
Red Dead Redemption 2	119
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	115
Watch Dogs: Legion	114

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	83
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	74
Battlefield 5	118
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	151
Cyberpunk 2077	65−70
Far Cry 5	97
Far Cry New Dawn	105
Forza Horizon 4	145
Hitman 3	159
Horizon Zero Dawn	94
Metro Exodus	90
Red Dead Redemption 2	71
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	109
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	174
Watch Dogs: Legion	101

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	67
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	66
Battlefield 5	117
Cyberpunk 2077	65−70
Far Cry 5	96
Far Cry New Dawn	93
Forza Horizon 4	139
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	95
Watch Dogs: Legion	71

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	102
Hitman 3	103
Horizon Zero Dawn	65
Metro Exodus	55
Red Dead Redemption 2	44
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	71

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	52
Battlefield 5	115
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	82
Far Cry New Dawn	89
Forza Horizon 4	122
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	55−60
Watch Dogs: Legion	53

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	59
Hitman 3	59
Horizon Zero Dawn	19
Metro Exodus	35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	42
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	65

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	38
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	34
Battlefield 5	68
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	52
Far Cry New Dawn	56
Forza Horizon 4	82
Watch Dogs: Legion	31

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

RTX A5500 Mobile 102.54

Radeon RX 7700S 100.21

GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile 100.21

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 100

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 99.92

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile 99.44

Radeon RX 6700S 98.49

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile is Radeon RX 7700S, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.