GeForce RTX 3080: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 3080 laptop chip brought NVIDIA's flagship Ampere silicon to portable machines in 2021 — 8,704 CUDA cores of GA102 in a 115 W envelope. The catalog matches 64 laptop models to it and carries 1080p benchmarks in 163 games. This guide covers where that firepower lands in 2026, what it costs used, and which machines carry it.

Where the RTX 3080 sits in 2026

At a catalog score of 82.8, this chip ranks 9th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — genuinely flagship territory, five years after launch. Its neighbors are the chips you would expect on that shelf: the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU (84.5) and RTX 4070 (84.5) just above, the RTX 5000 Ada workstation part (83.3) alongside, and the RTX 4080 Laptop GPU (81.5) and RTX A5000 (80.4) just below. A used buyer should read that list carefully: a 2021 flagship still outscores most of what shipped after it, and only the current generation meaningfully moves past it.

What the chip brings

The full mobile Ampere formula is here: the GA102 die on an 8 nm process, 8,704 shader cores, 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 320-bit bus pushing 760 GB/s of bandwidth, roughly 29.8 TFLOPS of theoretical throughput and a 115 W thermal design. Feature support is the other half of the story — ray tracing cores, DLSS upscaling, Resizable BAR and a full modern API stack, everything a current game engine knows how to use. Public benchmarks agree with the ranking: about 16,000 PassMark points, a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 10,750 and Fire Strike near 27,200. The one dated number is the 8 GB memory pool — ample at 1080p, the first thing to feel tight in 2026's heaviest titles at higher resolutions.

FPS in games at 1080p

At 1080p this chip simply plays everything. The top of the benchmark table reads like a refresh-rate demo: 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 — all at the high preset. Modern blockbusters stay comfortable too: Cyberpunk 2077 runs 121 FPS on high, Diablo 4 181, Apex Legends 144, the Resident Evil 4 remake 140, Escape from Tarkov 120, and Metro Exodus 100. Even the heaviest ports hold their heads above water — God of War at 91, Baldur's Gate 3 at 90, Red Dead Redemption 2 at 85, Hogwarts Legacy at 77 and The Last of Us at 76, with medium-preset headroom into the low hundreds for several of them.

Laptops that carry it

The 64-model roster splits into two camps. Gaming flagships from 2022–2023 dominate: HP's OMEN 17 asks $2,171–$2,726, Alienware x17 R2, M17 R5 and M15 R7 units span roughly $1,087–$1,339, and ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 or Gigabyte Aorus 17X machines start around $737–$922. The second camp is professional: Dell Precision 7670 and 7770 workstations use this same GA102 silicon for CUDA compute, and the Precision 7670 at $652 is arguably the most interesting value in the whole roster. Portability is the trade everywhere — the roster's median portability index of 6.8 says these are desk-bound machines with power bricks to match.

Bottom line

A used RTX 3080 laptop in 2026 is the classic flagship-depreciation play. The chip still ranks in the catalog's top ten, plays every modern title at 1080p high without apology, and the machines carrying it have fallen from $2,500-plus launch pricing to $737–$1,339 in gaming trim — or $652 if a Precision workstation's build quality matters more than RGB. The catalog's compare pages set it against RTX 3060, 4060, 4070 and 5070 machines, and those comparisons show the honest pecking order: newer mid-range beats it on efficiency, but raw 1080p performance remains flagship-grade. Buy it if the budget stops short of current-generation flagships and the laptop will mostly live on a desk.