GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

"RTX 4080 Laptop GPU" is the laptop-name record for NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace flagship tier — the AD103 silicon that anchors the premium gaming machines of 2023 onward. The naming record matters at this tier more than most: vendors shipped this chip in wildly different chassis, and the two catalog records for the silicon differ by twenty ranking places accordingly. This record carries 1080p benchmarks in 124 games and matches 64 laptop models to the chip.

Where the RTX 4080 Laptop GPU sits in 2026

This record scores 81.5 and ranks 10th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — the top ten, flanked by the elite of four generations: the RTX 4070 (84.5) and RTX 5000 Ada (83.3) above, the RTX 3080 (82.8) alongside, and the RTX A5000, RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell and RTX 3500 Ada below. Tenth place on a list of 341 is the practical ceiling of laptop gaming — everything above is a halo part costing correspondingly more. That the 2021 RTX 3080 still ranks within a point is the strongest argument for buying either tier used.

What the chip brings

The record confirms the family architecture — Ada Lovelace, a 4 nm-class process, 12 GB of GDDR6 memory and a 110 W-class thermal design, with CUDA and DLSS support carrying the flagship feature set. Public benchmark results for this record are the strongest in its family: around 34,500 PassMark points, a Fire Strike score near 58,900 and over 146,000 Vulkan compute points — figures consistent with the best-fed implementations of the silicon. The complete engineering detail, from the 9,728 shader cores to the 716 GB/s memory system, lives on the chip's spec page.

FPS in games at 1080p

The 1080p table is uniformly fast enough to make refresh rate the constraint. The Witcher 3 runs 334 FPS at the high preset, Diablo 4 322 rising to 339 on medium, Valorant 300, Counter-Strike 2 290, Fortnite 270, Shadow of the Tomb Raider 263 rising to 272 and Forza Horizon 5 249. The modern heavyweights post flagship numbers: the Resident Evil 4 remake at 170 rising to 193, Cyberpunk 2077 at 149, Metro Exodus at 146 rising to 170, Dying Light 2 at 141 rising to 160, God of War at 138 rising to 161, Hogwarts Legacy at 134 rising to 157, Baldur's Gate 3 at 122 rising to 143 and The Last of Us at 118 rising to 127. Elden Ring sits at its engine's 60 cap at both presets.

Laptops that carry it

The 64-model matched roster is the 2024 premium class. ASUS ROG Strix G16/G18, Strix SCAR 16/18, Zephyrus G16 and Acer Predator Helios 16/18 machines cluster tightly at $1,152; HP OMEN 16 units span $1,280–$1,665; the Alienware M18 R2 tops the roster at $2,485; and MSI's Creator 16 AI Studio represents the content-creation use case. Roster medians are the highest CPU-adjacent numbers in the catalog's GPU pages: a best-CPU score of 94, gaming index 82, 68.5 games clearing recommended settings — and a portability index of 16.8 that marks these as desktop replacements.

Bottom line

For the used buyer this record is the top-tier benchmark: tenth of 341, 12 GB of memory, every feature of the current stack, and the fastest implementations of the silicon that vendors shipped. The buying advice is the same as for the chip's other record — at $1,152 into the Strix and Helios lines, this is flagship performance at mainstream-flagship pricing, and the 12 GB buffer makes it the tier to choose if 1440p or high-refresh 1080p is the target. Buyers comparing against the RTX 4070 tier a few places down should weigh the VRAM gap most heavily; it is the spec that separates the tiers years from now.