RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking27not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency41.11no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores74249728
Core clock speed1290 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate386.3643.0
Floating-point processing power24.72 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs80112
TMUs232304
Tensor Cores232304
Ray Tracing Cores5876

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 4.0 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/s576.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 4080 Mobile has a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 9.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation
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