GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

"RTX 3080 Laptop GPU" is the explicit laptop-name record for NVIDIA's 2021 flagship Ampere mobile chip — the same GA102 silicon that ships in the gaming machines everyone calls an RTX 3080. The distinction matters in the used market: laptop implementations of this chip vary enormously in power limit depending on chassis, so benchmark records captured under the laptop-specific name tend to reflect specific vendor implementations. The catalog carries 1080p benchmarks in 163 games for this record and matches 64 laptop models to the chip.

Where the RTX 3080 Laptop GPU sits in 2026

This record scores at 73.1 and ranks 28th of 341 scored mobile GPUs. The company it keeps there is a cross-section of eras: NVIDIA's professional RTX 3000 Ada (73.7) and RTX A5000 Laptop (73.5) above, the older RTX 2070 Super (73.2) alongside, and the Radeon RX 7600M (73), RTX 4080 Laptop variant record (72.8) and RTX 3060 Mobile (72.6) below. The spread between this placement and the chip's other naming record is itself the lesson — the same silicon can benchmark ten places apart depending on which laptops a given dataset captured, because a 115 W GA102 and a power-limited one are effectively different GPUs.

What the chip brings

The record confirms the family architecture — Ampere, an 8 nm process, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and a 115 W-class thermal design — while the full engineering details live on the chip's spec page. What this record adds is a set of strong public benchmark results: roughly 25,000 PassMark points, a Fire Strike score near 39,300 and over 104,000 points in both the Vulkan and OpenCL compute tests. Feature support includes CUDA and DLSS, the two that matter most — ray-traced rendering with deep-learning upscaling is what keeps a 2021 flagship comfortable in 2026's heaviest games.

FPS in games at 1080p

The 1080p picture is flagship-grade across the board. At the high preset: 307 FPS in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, 273 in FIFA 22, 240 in CS:GO and Overwatch, 220 in Valorant, 212 in Counter-Strike 2, 194 in Forza Horizon 4 and 191 in The Witcher 3. Modern titles hold up just as firmly — Diablo 4 at 181, Apex Legends at 144, Resident Evil 4 remake at 140, Cyberpunk 2077 at 121 on the high preset, Escape from Tarkov at 120 and Metro Exodus at 100. The hardest ports stay playable: God of War at 91, Baldur's Gate 3 at 90, Hogwarts Legacy at 77 rising to 101 on medium, The Last of Us at 76.

Laptops that carry it

The 64-model matched roster reads like a 2022–2023 flagship convention. HP OMEN 17 units ask $2,171–$2,726 at the top; Alienware's x17 R2, M17 R5 and M15 R7 occupy the $1,087–$1,339 band; ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17, ROG Zephyrus M16 and Gigabyte Aorus 17X machines appear from $737. The professional angle is here too — Dell Precision 7670 and 7770 workstations carry the same silicon for CUDA compute, with the 7670 asking $652. A median gaming index of 76 and a median recommended-settings count of 50 games across the roster quantify what those machines deliver; a median portability index of 6.8 quantifies what they cost in carrying comfort.

Bottom line

For a used buyer, the RTX 3080 Laptop GPU record is best read as the vendor-implementation view of NVIDIA's 2021 flagship: every bit of the 8,704-core GA102 performance when the chassis feeds it power, and a ranking that slides with every watt the vendor trims. The practical takeaway is simple — check the specific laptop's power configuration, not just the GPU name, when comparing listings. Either way, at $737–$1,339 for gaming machines and $652 for the Precision workstation entry point, the chip remains one of the strongest performance-per-dollar propositions in the used catalog for anyone whose gaming happens at 1080p.