Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada) vs 1000 Laptop (Ada)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX 500 Mobile (Ada) 4 GB with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1000 Mobile (Ada) 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 1000 Mobile (Ada) over RTX 500 Mobile (Ada)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada)
  • 32% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 9.2 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 192 vs 128 GB/s
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 111.6 img/sec 123.8 img/sec
Face Detection 62 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.17 Gpixels/sec 2.88 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.81 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.09 Gpixels/sec 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.87 Gpixels/sec 0.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 247.8 Gpixels/sec 290 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8618.9 FPS 9455.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 534 562
DirectX 11 86 FPS 110 FPS
DirectX 12 52 FPS 63 FPS
GPU Compute 4551 Ops/s 5295 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]944 & 687 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10]22 & 29 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 4779 5554
Image Segmentation (HP) 13987 11873
Image Super Resolution (Q) 13345 15799
Face Detection (HP) 22815 25103
Pose Estimation (Q) 35896 51054
Text Classification (SP) 2802 2761
Machine Translation (HP) 3693 3137
Object Detection (SP) 5970 6750
Depth Estimation (Q) 20606 24450
Style Transfer (SP) 89098 101447
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 500 Laptop (Ada) and 1000 Laptop (Ada)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 26, 2024 February 26, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD107 AD107
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (46th and 47th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Boost Clock 1425-2240 MHz (configurable) 1245-2360 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 20
Tensor Cores 64 80
Ray-tracing Cores 16 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 46-72 GPixel/s 60-113 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 91-143 GTexel/s 100-189 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.8-9.2 TFLOPS
6.4-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 35-60 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 118.87 MTr/mm² 118.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 95°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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