GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop vs RTX 5090
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
GB203-400
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
GB202-300
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 24 GB with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the RTX RTX 5090 32 GB that utilizes 170 pipelines and 21760 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5090
- Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (104.8 vs 45.3 TFLOPS)
- Shows 52% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 207 vs 136 FPS
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Features 352 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 1792 vs 896 GB/s
- Achieves 85% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (419K vs 226K)
- Has 2.1x more shading units (21760 vs 10496)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 212 149 140 111 |
336 247 233 187 |
| The Witcher 3 | 225 201 143 75 |
364 327 237 123 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 293 222 162 84 |
363 265 202 99 |
| Far Cry 6 | 167 153 134 83 |
237 202 190 121 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 151 120 97 55 |
249 199 166 97 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 196 190 149 101 |
334 322 260 184 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 135 114 96 63 |
221 185 175 113 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 177 153 110 51 |
261 233 160 77 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 273 257 194 104 |
329 302 238 128 |
| 1080p High | 203 | 299 |
| 1080p Ultra | 173 | 254 |
| 1440p Ultra | 136 | 207 |
| 4K Ultra | 81 | 125 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 25015 | 46873 |
| Solar Bay | 115087 | 236689 |
| Port Royal | 16530 | 38202 |
| Fire Strike | 51145 | 87569 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 47290 | 108751 |
| Night Raid | 177560 | 206648 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 266.5 img/sec | 333 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 196.9 img/sec | 298.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 10.6 Gpixels/sec | 21.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 15.2 Gpixels/sec | 33.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 14.4 Gpixels/sec | 34.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.89 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 1150 Gpixels/sec | 2850 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29783 FPS | 59146.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1108 | 1410 |
| DirectX 11 | 266 FPS | 340 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 135 FPS | 179 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11399 Ops/s | 24383 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 12121 | 18948 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 33054 | 55109 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 33652 | 58478 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 67213 | 114685 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 151395 | 344729 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3209 | 4464 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6292 | 8184 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15618 | 27802 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 57894 | 85572 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 272117 | 687080 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop and RTX 5090General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 6, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $1999 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | GB203-400 | GB202-300 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (#1st place)
Desktop GPU rating (#2nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 990-1515 MHz (configurable) | 2017 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1515-2160 MHz (configurable) | 2407 MHz |
| Shading Units | 10496 | 21760 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 328 | 680 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 176 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 82 | 170 |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 680 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 82 | 170 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 96MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 170-242 GPixel/s | 424 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 497-708 GTexel/s | 1637 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 95-175 W (configurable) | 575 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 378 mm² | 750 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.6 billion | 92.2 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.63 MTr/mm² | 122.93 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 28000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 512-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 10.1 | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 2.1b |
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