Laptop RTX 5080 comes within 15% of RTX 5090 performance in benchmarks

In a nutshell: Laptops featuring Nvidia's high-end RTX 50 series graphics cards have started rolling out, and early reviews suggest the company's latest flagship offers a somewhat lukewarm uplift over its predecessor. Furthermore, a new series of benchmarks indicates that moving down one rank might provide very similar performance while saving customers hundreds of dollars. Notebookcheck recently tested a mobile Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 paired with the same CPU, providing a nearly like-for-like comparison. Although some laptops featuring the 5080 are up to $1,000 cheaper than 5090-equipped notebooks, the former is often less than 10 percent slower. Using XMG Neo 16 A25 engineering samples with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX processors, the RTX 5080 stuck closely to its larger sibling in four 3DMark tests and several high-end games. The biggest gap appeared in Steel Nomad, where the 5090 scored 6,156 – 18 percent above the 5080. Its advantage shrank to 15 percent in Port Royal at 1440p and under ... Read full article.