Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop vs 5000 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
GA104
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX A5000 Mobile with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months newer 5000 Mobile (Ada) that utilizes 76 pipelines and 9728 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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
- Performs significantly better (up to 77%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (42.6 vs 21.7 TFLOPS)
- Shows 61% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 100 vs 62 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 114 71 62 41 |
163 108 97 70 |
| The Witcher 3 | 132 105 75 43 |
184 155 108 57 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 187 143 102 51 |
267 202 145 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 100 87 70 39 |
140 130 109 64 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 70 59 44 20 |
110 92 73 37 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 85 79 53 36 |
142 133 98 65 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 66 53 41 25 |
99 83 67 39 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 74 65 39 17 |
123 109 69 31 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 115 105 74 41 |
187 178 132 72 |
| 1080p High | 105 | 157 |
| 1080p Ultra | 85 | 132 |
| 1440p Ultra | 62 | 100 |
| 4K Ultra | 35 | 57 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9295 | 15858 |
| Solar Bay | 40186 | 63693 |
| Port Royal | 5817 | 9606 |
| Fire Strike | 26200 | 38278 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 20653 | 32627 |
| Night Raid | 61009 | 70978 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 172.7 img/sec | 224.2 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 103.8 img/sec | 156 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.34 Gpixels/sec | 6.84 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.2 Gpixels/sec | 9.15 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.61 Gpixels/sec | 10.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.05 Gpixels/sec | 1.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 474.4 Gpixels/sec | 882.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14218.2 FPS | 23725.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 663 | 756 |
| DirectX 11 | 138 FPS | 231 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 74 FPS | 99 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6941 Ops/s | 9393 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) | 6590 | 9400 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 12226 | 17325 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 16682 | 30156 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 30795 | 42321 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 71291 | 140618 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2115 | 3278 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3207 | 3691 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8583 | 12106 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 25256 | 43574 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 149822 | 283979 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop and 5000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 12, 2021 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GA104 | AD103 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i9 12900HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (38th and 8th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 780-1215 MHz (configurable) | - |
| Boost Clock | 1245-1770 MHz (configurable) | 1460-2190 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 9728 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 304 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | 76 |
| Tensor Cores | 192 | 304 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | 76 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 120-170 GPixel/s | 164-245 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 239-340 GTexel/s | 444-666 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-165 W (configurable) | 80-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 379 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17.4 billion | 45.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.39 MTr/mm² | 121.11 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | Yes | Yes |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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