NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile sales 3 January 2023. This is a high-end Ada Lovelace architecture notebook card based on 4 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 12 GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 20 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 432.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 150 Watt (60 - 150 Watt TGP).

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 52.32% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking43
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
GPU code nameGN21-X9
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year old)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7424of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1860 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed2280 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors35,800 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt (60 - 150 Watt TGP)of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate386.3of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce RTX 4080 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 sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4080 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 typeGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed20000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4080 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 Mobile 52.32

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 4080 Mobile 111294

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 4080 Mobile 57598

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 4080 Mobile 40687

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 4080 Mobile 131984

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 4080 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 HD164
1440p113
4K72

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 149

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 85−90
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 90−95
Battlefield 5 130−140
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 140−150
Cyberpunk 2077 143
Far Cry 5 175
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 150−160
Hitman 3 160−170
Horizon Zero Dawn 110−120
Red Dead Redemption 2 85−90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 201
Watch Dogs: Legion 129

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 85−90
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 90−95
Battlefield 5 130−140
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 140−150
Cyberpunk 2077 124
Far Cry 5 158
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 150−160
Hitman 3 160−170
Horizon Zero Dawn 57
Metro Exodus 146
Red Dead Redemption 2 85−90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 186
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 334
Watch Dogs: Legion 121

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 85−90
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 118
Battlefield 5 130−140
Cyberpunk 2077 121
Far Cry 5 149
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 150−160
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 172
Watch Dogs: Legion 110

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 90−95
Hitman 3 100−110
Horizon Zero Dawn 106
Metro Exodus 102
Red Dead Redemption 2 45−50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 143

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 93
Battlefield 5 100−110
Cyberpunk 2077 82
Far Cry 5 129
Far Cry New Dawn 90−95
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 137
Watch Dogs: Legion 93

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
Hitman 3 55−60
Horizon Zero Dawn 74
Metro Exodus 67
Red Dead Redemption 2 27−30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 84
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 115

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 55
Battlefield 5 65−70
Cyberpunk 2077 39
Far Cry 5 83
Far Cry New Dawn 55−60
Forza Horizon 4 75−80
Watch Dogs: Legion 56

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile according to our statistics.

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