CES is still raging on, and before Nvidia can even blink, there are performance leaks of the company’s upcoming Nvidia RTX 5080 laptop graphics chips.
The mobile space is currently in an incredibly heated battle. Between AMD providing some of the best chips for the booming handheld gaming PC market, as well as excellent graphical performance on some of the best mini PCs, Nvidia isn’t taking that lying down.
Leaked benchmarks using Geekbench’s OpenCL test indicate that the upcoming RTX 5080 laptop chip handily beats its predecessors. Running on an Alienware Area-51 18, which is a laptop line that Dell recently revived the branding for, the new Nvidia laptop chip scored 190,326. For comparison, the RTX 4090 laptop GPU hits 179,426, and the 4080 manages 160,627.
This puts the 5080 laptop GPU at an 18% increase over the 40-series’ flagship mobile chip. While it can best an RTX 4090 in the laptop space, when comparing it to desktop cards, it understandably is a bit of a different story.
Based on these results, the laptop RTX 5080 is on par with the RTX 4070 Super, but that could change in the next few weeks as drivers and software are finalized. Previous scores for the RTX 4070 Super pit it at 192,271, just inches away from the 5080 in question. However, as for real-world performance, we’re still in the dark.
On the gaming front, the RTX 5080 has the potential to fly past the RTX 40-series lineup once you begin applying Nvidia’s AI-powered software. That’s because its latest DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation is exclusively available to the RTX 50-series, including its laptop chips. It can produce three frames entirely using AI for every normally-rendered frame, resulting in a claimed 4x frame rate increase. Indeed, it’s thanks to DLSS 4 that Nvidia has claimed the RTX 5070 is as fast as the RTX 4090, despite it set to be a much less powerful card overall.
Nvidia expects the RTX 5000 series laptops to begin shipping sometime in March 2025. The Alienware Area-51 machine this benchmark was run on will cost $2,199, and we’re sure it’ll land on our best gaming laptop list at some point.