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Rate My PC: Intel Core Ultra 5 226V + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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90 / 100
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Apex Performer

Top 10% of systems. Capable of 4K Ultra gaming and advanced rendering.

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System Balance Analysis

CPU vs GPU performance ratio
Well Balanced
CPU
84%
VS
GPU
95%
PROCESSOR

Intel Core Ultra 5 226V

19,368 Benchmark Score
Top 16% Market Ranking
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

38,135 Benchmark Score
Top 5% Market Ranking
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Market Position

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Budget
0-30
Mid-Range
30-60
High-End
60-85
Enthusiast
85-100
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Performance Tiers Explained

90-100

Ultimate

4K Ultra gaming, VR ready, ray tracing enabled, professional workloads

4K 60+ FPS VR Ready
70-89

High-End

1440p Ultra or 4K High settings, excellent for modern AAA titles

1440p Ultra 4K High
50-69

Mid-Range

1080p Ultra or 1440p Medium, great value for most gamers

1080p Ultra 1440p Med
30-49

Entry Level

1080p Medium settings, suitable for eSports and older titles

1080p Med eSports
0-29

Legacy

Basic gaming, older titles, consider upgrading for modern games

720p-1080p Low Older Games

# GPU Analysis — VRAM, bandwidth, clocks, RT/tensor hardware, what the benchmark scores mean for rendering

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is the undisputed performance driver in this pairing. Built on the Ada Lovelace architecture at TSMC's 5 nm process, the chip packs 35,800 million transistors into a 294 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 121.8M per mm². The GPU is equipped with 7,424 shading units, 232 texture mapping units, and 80 raster output pipelines. Its 12 GB of GDDR6 memory runs across a 192-bit bus, delivering 432.0 GB/s of bandwidth — a figure that comfortably feeds the chip's 24.72 TFLOPS of FP32 compute.

Clock behavior is notable. The base clock sits at 1290 MHz, boosting to 1665 MHz, while memory operates at 2250 MHz with an effective 18 Gbps transfer rate. Pixel fill rate is 133.2 GPixel/s, and texture fill rate reaches 386.3 GTexel/s. These raw specifications translate directly into benchmark results: the GPU scores 159,575 in Geekbench OpenCL and 145,807 in Geekbench Vulkan, with a Passmark G3D score of 24,926 and a Passmark GPU Compute score of 11,191. The percentile ranking of 81 against all GPUs places it in the upper quintile of mobile graphics silicon.

Ray tracing and tensor hardware are central to this chip's identity. The RTX 4080 Mobile carries 58 RT cores and 232 tensor cores, enabling hardware-accelerated ray tracing and DLSS frame generation. For rendering workloads, these cores matter more than raw rasterization. The Passmark DirectX 12 score of 96 and DirectX 11 score of 244 indicate strong API compliance, though these synthetic numbers understate real-world rendering capability. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, covering the full modern graphics API stack.

Compared to its nearest rivals, the RTX 4080 Mobile posts an average benchmark score of 38,135. The NVIDIA GeForce MX570 scores 38,299 (0.4% higher), the RTX 5080 Mobile scores 38,349 (0.6% higher), the desktop RTX 4070 scores 37,648 (1.3% lower), and the Tesla P4 scores 37,628 (1.3% lower). This places the mobile 4080 in a tight pack with desktop-class and newer mobile parts, underscoring that the performance delta between tiers has compressed significantly. For rendering, the 12 GB VRAM capacity is generous for laptop-class products, and the 432.0 GB/s bandwidth prevents memory starvation in texture-heavy scenes.

# Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: The RTX 4080 Mobile's 24.72 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 133.2 GPixel/s pixel rate provide ample headroom for 1440p high-refresh displays. The GPU's 81st percentile ranking and its 1.3% advantage over the desktop RTX 4070 in average score suggest it can maintain high frame rates in demanding titles, though the CPU's 73rd percentile ranking may cap performance in CPU-bound scenes.

Streaming: The 232 tensor cores enable hardware-accelerated encoding and AI-based features like DLSS, offloading this work from the CPU. The GPU's Passmark GPU Compute score of 11,191 indicates substantial parallel processing capability, while the CPU's 17,850 Passmark multithread score ensures the system can handle encoding and game logic simultaneously without significant frame loss.

Video editing: The combination of 12 GB VRAM and 432.0 GB/s bandwidth accelerates timeline scrubbing and effect rendering. The GPU's Geekbench OpenCL score of 159,575 demonstrates strong compute throughput for GPU-accelerated effects, while the CPU's 9,848 Cinebench R23 multicore score provides sufficient muscle for proxy generation and export encoding. The 8 MB shared L3 cache on the CPU helps with large media file operations.

3D rendering: The 58 RT cores deliver hardware ray tracing acceleration, and the 232 tensor cores speed up denoising operations. The GPU's 24.72 TFLOPS FP32 throughput is competitive with desktop parts in the same class, as evidenced by its 1.3% lead over the desktop RTX 4070. The 12 GB frame buffer accommodates complex scenes without out-of-core swapping, though very large scenes may still exceed capacity.

Software development: The CPU's 8 cores and 8 threads with a 4.50 GHz boost clock handle compilation and test execution efficiently. The Passmark data compression score of 170,687 and data encryption score of 12,710 indicate strong throughput for build artifact compression and secure data handling. The GPU's compute capability accelerates local machine learning model training and inference testing.

Student and office work: The 17 W TDP CPU combined with the 110 W GPU creates a balanced power profile for all-day battery operation. The CPU's Geekbench single-core score of 1,930 handles productivity applications responsively, while the 2.10 GHz base clock ensures sustained performance under moderate loads. The 73rd CPU percentile and 81st GPU percentile rankings indicate this system exceeds typical office requirements by a wide margin.

# CPU Analysis

The Intel Core Ultra 5 226V is a Lunar Lake architecture processor built on TSMC's 3 nm process. It features 8 cores and 8 threads — notably, no hyperthreading — with a base clock of 2.10 GHz and a boost clock of 4.50 GHz. The cache hierarchy consists of 192 KB L1 per core, 2.5 MB L2 per core, and 8 MB shared L3. The CPU supports dual-channel memory with a PCIe Gen 5 interface limited to 4 lanes, and integrates Arc 130V graphics. Its 17 W TDP classifies it as an ultra-low-power mobile part.

Benchmark scores reveal a processor optimized for single-thread responsiveness over multi-thread throughput. The Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1,744 is strong for a mobile chip, while the multi-core score of 9,848 reflects the absence of simultaneous multithreading. Geekbench scores of 1,930 single-core and 8,598 multi-core confirm this profile. The Passmark suite shows a single-thread score of 3,754, with multi-thread at 17,850. Integer math scores 38,647, floating-point math 52,270, and extended instructions 14,724. Prime number finding scores a modest 166, while random string sorting reaches 20,813 and physics simulation 1,449.

The CPU's 73rd percentile ranking against all CPUs places it in the upper-middle tier. Its average benchmark score of 19,368 puts it in direct competition with the AMD Ryzen 5 7533HS (19,364, 0% delta), Intel Core i5-1345U (19,411, -0.2% delta), Intel Core i7-8700K (19,238, 0.7% delta), and Intel Core i7-10700F (19,499, -0.7% delta). The near-zero deltas against these parts — including desktop CPUs from previous generations — indicate that the 226V delivers desktop-equivalent performance in a 17 W envelope.

For real workloads, the 226V's architecture favors bursty, latency-sensitive tasks. The 4.50 GHz boost clock and 1,744 Cinebench R23 single-core score excel in application launch, web browsing, and code compilation start-up phases. The 8 MB L3 cache and dual-channel memory support keep data flowing for moderately threaded workloads. However, the lack of hyperthreading and the 8 MB shared cache mean sustained all-core loads like video rendering will not match processors with more threads, even if the per-core efficiency is excellent.

# Balance and Bottleneck

The data reveals a system where the GPU significantly outclasses the CPU in their respective percentile rankings — 81st for the GPU versus 73rd for the CPU. This imbalance creates a predictable bottleneck pattern: in GPU-bound scenarios like high-resolution gaming and rendering, the RTX 4080 Mobile operates near its full potential; in CPU-bound scenarios like physics simulation and lightly threaded tasks, the 226V becomes the limiting factor.

The Passmark physics score of 1,449 for the CPU is telling. Physics calculations in games are typically single-threaded or lightly threaded, and this score suggests the 226V may struggle to feed the GPU in CPU-intensive game logic. Meanwhile, the GPU's Passmark DirectX 12 score of 96 and DirectX 11 score of 244 indicate the graphics pipeline can process frames faster than the CPU can issue draw calls in some scenarios.

The FPS scaling picture is estimated rather than measured for this exact combination, as no measured FPS rows exist in the data. However, the benchmark scores provide a basis for inference. The GPU's 1.3% lead over the desktop RTX 4070 in average score suggests frame rates within a few percentage points of that desktop part. The CPU's 0.7% lead over the Intel Core i7-8700K — a popular gaming CPU from its era — indicates the 226V will not hold back the GPU in most titles at 1440p or 4K, where GPU load dominates.

The combined percentile of 77 reflects a system that is well-matched overall, despite the GPU's advantage. In multi-threaded CPU workloads like video encoding, the 226V's 9,848 Cinebench R23 multi-core score may be the constraint, but in GPU compute workloads like rendering, the RTX 4080 Mobile's 11,191 Passmark GPU Compute score will dominate. The 8 MB L3 cache and dual-channel memory help mitigate CPU bottlenecks in data-intensive tasks, but the fundamental core/thread count limits parallel CPU throughput.

# Upgrade Path and Platform

The Intel Core Ultra 5 226V uses the Intel BGA 2833 socket, which is a soldered mobile platform — the CPU is not upgradeable in the traditional sense. The platform supports PCIe Gen 5 with 4 lanes from the CPU, and the GPU connects via PCIe 4.0 x16. Memory support is listed as "depends on motherboard," with dual-channel configuration. ECC memory is not supported.

The GPU's TDP of 110 W and the CPU's 17 W TDP combine for a total of 127 W of processor power draw. Notably, the GPU's suggested PSU is listed as null, and it uses no external power connectors — it is an IGP-class part that draws power from the motherboard. This makes the platform power delivery relatively simple, though the 110 W GPU TDP still requires adequate cooling and battery capacity.

A sensible next upgrade for this platform would focus on memory capacity and storage, since the CPU and GPU are both soldered. The dual-channel memory bus can be populated with higher-capacity modules to improve multitasking and reduce swap operations. The PCIe Gen 5 CPU lanes support high-speed NVMe storage, and the PCIe 4.0 x16 GPU interface has headroom for future external GPU enclosures, though the integrated RTX 4080 Mobile already saturates most workloads. The GPU's 12 GB VRAM is the most likely future constraint; users requiring more memory would need to move to a different platform entirely.

# Who Should Build It

This combination targets users who need desktop-class graphics performance in a mobile form factor. The GPU's 81st percentile ranking and 12 GB VRAM make it suitable for gamers at 1440p and 4K resolutions, where the 432.0 GB/s bandwidth and 24.72 TFLOPS compute deliver high settings. The 1.3% lead over the desktop RTX 4070 confirms this is not a cut-down mobile part in performance terms.

Content creators working with GPU-accelerated renders, video editing timelines, or machine learning models will benefit from the 58 RT cores and 232 tensor cores. The 24.72 TFLOPS FP16 performance (1:1 with FP32) enables fast half-precision compute for AI workloads. The CPU's 73rd percentile ensures the system handles administrative tasks, file compression, and compilation without feeling sluggish.

Software developers can leverage the CPU's 170,687 Passmark data compression score for build artifact handling and the 12,710 data encryption score for secure development workflows. The 3 nm Lunar Lake architecture provides efficiency that supports long compile sessions on battery. Students and small business workstations will find the system overqualified, but the 17 W CPU TDP ensures quiet operation and long battery life during document editing, web research, and spreadsheet work.

# Gaming Performance

No measured FPS data exists for this exact CPU-GPU combination. The FACT PACK contains no measuredFpsUltraByGame entries, so all frame rate expectations below are estimates derived from the benchmark scores. The GPU's 81st percentile and the CPU's 73rd percentile provide the basis for these projections, and actual results may vary by game title and driver optimization.

At 1080p ultra settings, the RTX 4080 Mobile's 24.72 TFLOPS FP32 compute and 133.2 GPixel/s pixel rate should deliver frame rates well above 100 FPS in most titles, constrained primarily by the CPU's 1,744 Cinebench R23 single-core score in CPU-bound scenes. The 1.3% performance advantage over the desktop RTX 4070 suggests frame rates comparable to that desktop part at this resolution.

At 1440p, the GPU's 12 GB VRAM and 432.0 GB/s bandwidth provide sufficient resources for high-texture packs and modern rendering techniques. The 58 RT cores enable hardware ray tracing at playable frame rates, with DLSS support via the 232 tensor cores to boost performance. The GPU's 24.72 TFLOPS compute ensures the pixel pipeline stays saturated, and the CPU bottleneck narrows as GPU load increases.

At 4K, the system is firmly GPU-bound. The 80 ROPs and 133.2 GPixel/s pixel rate deliver adequate fill rates, but the 12 GB VRAM may become a limitation with ultra-texture settings in VRAM-hungry titles. The 1.3% delta over the desktop RTX 4070 suggests 4K performance in the same ballpark as that part, meaning high refresh at 4K is not realistic, but 60 FPS in many titles is achievable.

# FAQ

Q: What is the GPU's memory bandwidth and how does it affect performance?

A: The RTX 4080 Mobile has 432.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth from 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus. This bandwidth feeds the 24.72 TFLOPS FP32 compute, preventing memory starvation in texture-heavy scenes and high-resolution rendering.

Q: How does the CPU compare to the AMD Ryzen 5 7533HS?

A: The Core Ultra 5 226V scores an average benchmark of 19,368, while the Ryzen 5 7533HS scores 19,364 — a 0% delta. This places the two processors at parity in overall performance, despite different architectures and core configurations.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor in gaming?

A: The GPU ranks at the 81st percentile while the CPU ranks at the 73rd percentile, indicating the CPU is the weaker component in relative terms. In GPU-bound scenarios like high-resolution gaming, the GPU dominates; in CPU-bound scenes with heavy physics or AI, the CPU's 8 threads may cap performance.

Q: What is the power consumption of this configuration?

A: The CPU has a 17 W TDP and the GPU has a 110 W TDP, for a combined 127 W of processor power draw. The GPU uses no external power connectors and is classified as IGP in slot width.

Q: Does the CPU support ECC memory?

A: No, the Core Ultra 5 226V does not support ECC memory. Memory support is listed as "depends on motherboard," with a dual-channel memory bus.

Q: What ray tracing hardware does the GPU include?

A: The RTX 4080 Mobile includes 58 RT cores dedicated to hardware ray tracing, along with 232 tensor cores for DLSS and AI processing. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) for full ray tracing API coverage.

Q: How does the GPU compare to the RTX 5080 Mobile?

A: The RTX 4080 Mobile scores an average benchmark of 38,135, while the RTX 5080 Mobile scores 38,349 — a 0.6% delta. The newer part holds a marginal lead, but the 4080 Mobile remains highly competitive.

# Benchmark Performance

The combined system ranks at the 77th percentile, reflecting strong performance in both CPU and GPU domains. The CPU posts an average benchmark score of 19,368 with a 73rd percentile ranking. Its Cinebench scores are 1,501 (R15 multi), 267 (R15 single), 6,381 (R20 multi), 900 (R20 single), 9,848 (R23 multi), and 1,744 (R23 single). Geekbench scores are 8,598 multi-core and 1,930 single-core. Passmark scores include 17,850 multithread, 3,754 single-thread, 38,647 integer math, 52,270 floating-point math, 14,724 extended instructions, 170,687 data compression, 12,710 data encryption, 166 prime numbers, 20,813 random string sorting, and 1,449 physics.

The GPU posts an average benchmark score of 38,135 with an 81st percentile ranking. Its Geekbench scores are 159,575 OpenCL and 145,807 Vulkan. Passmark scores include 24,926 G3D, 11,191 GPU Compute, 929 G2D, 286 DirectX 9, 244 DirectX 11, 157 DirectX 10, and 96 DirectX 12.

The combined picture is a system where the GPU leads by a significant margin in raw compute, while the CPU holds its own against desktop parts from previous generations. The 0% delta with the Ryzen 5 7533HS and 0.7% lead over the Core i7-8700K show the 226V delivers desktop-class single-thread performance. The GPU's 1.3% lead over the desktop RTX 4070 confirms the mobile 4080 is among the fastest laptop GPUs available. This pairing offers a rare combination of ultra-low-power CPU efficiency and high-end GPU throughput, making it suitable for demanding mobile workloads where battery life and graphics performance are both priorities.