GeForce RTX 4080: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 4080 laptop chip is NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace flagship tier — the AD103 die with 9,728 shader cores and 12 GB of fast GDDR6, shipped in the big-screen gaming machines of 2023 onward. The catalog matches 64 models to it, with benchmarks in 124 games at 1080p. This guide covers its 2026 ranking, frame rates and the laptops that carry it.

Where the RTX 4080 sits in 2026

This record scores 72.8 and ranks 30th of 341 scored mobile GPUs, in a cluster with the RTX 2070 Super (73.2), the RTX 3080 Laptop record (73.1), the Radeon RX 7600M (73) and the RTX 3060 family's records (72.6). The honest footnote is that the same silicon holds a second, higher catalog record under its laptop-name — 81.5, tenth place — and the spread between the two is implementation variance in action: a 4080 in a 110 W chassis and one in a fat cooling system are different GPUs wearing the same badge. Either record places the chip firmly in the catalog's elite tier; the ranking depends on which machines fed the measurement.

What the chip brings

The engineering is flagship-grade on paper and in practice: the AD103 die on a 4 nm-class process, 9,728 shader cores, 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus moving 716 GB/s, nearly 49 TFLOPS of theoretical throughput and a 110 W thermal design. Ray tracing cores, DLSS frame generation, Resizable BAR and CUDA compute complete the modern stack, and the 12 GB memory pool removes the one compromise that limits 8 GB cards at high resolutions. Public benchmarks for this record run around 24,800 PassMark points, a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 18,500 and Fire Strike near 41,400.

FPS in games at 1080p

At 1080p the chip spends its time waiting on the CPU. 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, Forza Horizon 5 249 and Forza Horizon 4 230. The demanding catalog is equally one-sided: Cyberpunk 2077 at 149 on high, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 170 rising to 193, Far Cry 5 at 171, Hogwarts Legacy at 134 rising to 157, God of War at 138 rising to 161, Dying Light 2 at 141 rising to 160, Metro Exodus at 146 rising to 170, and The Last of Us at 118 rising to 127. Elden Ring reads 60 at both presets — its engine's ceiling, not the GPU's.

Laptops that carry it

The 64-model roster is the premium class of 2024: ASUS ROG Strix G16/G18, Strix SCAR 16/18, ROG Zephyrus G16 and Acer Predator Helios 16/18 machines cluster at $1,152; HP's OMEN 16 and 16 Slim span $1,280–$1,665; and the Alienware M18 R2 tops the list at $2,485. The MSI Creator 16 AI Studio rounds out the roster as the content-creation entry. Roster medians underline the tier: a best-CPU score of 94, 68.5 games clearing recommended settings, gaming index 82 — and a portability index of 16.8, the number that reminds you these are 16-to-18-inch desktop replacements.

Bottom line

A used RTX 4080 laptop is the buy-the-ceiling option: frame rates that embarrass every title in the benchmark table, 12 GB of memory that future-proofs the highest settings, and DLSS frame generation for everything else. The $1,152 entry point through the 2024 Strix and Helios lines is remarkably direct for this tier — flagship silicon without the flagship premium that the RTX 4090 carries. The catalog's compare pages against the 3060, 3070, 4060 and 4070 show the size of each step. Buy this tier when the machine will also carry serious creative or compute work; for pure 1080p gaming, the tiers below deliver nearly the same experience for less.