Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs 1000 Laptop (Ada)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Mobile (Blackwell) 8 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older 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 Pro 1000 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 192 GB/s
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
105
65
54
37
-
The Witcher 3
117
93
66
37
-
Counter-Strike 2
170
123
87
41
-
Far Cry 6
90
79
60
34
-
Hogwarts Legacy
63
49
35
19
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
74
64
46
28
-
Ghost of Tsushima
59
44
33
20
-
Cyberpunk 2077
62
59
33
14
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
61
33
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 93 -
1080p Ultra 74 -
1440p Ultra 53 -
4K Ultra 29 -
Margin of Error High High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 8256 -
Solar Bay 36840 -
Port Royal 5212 -
Fire Strike 21279 -
Wild Life Extreme 18390 -
Night Raid 97812 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 137.7 img/sec 123.8 img/sec
Face Detection 95 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.99 Gpixels/sec 2.88 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.89 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.7 Gpixels/sec 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.11 Gpixels/sec 0.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.8 Gpixels/sec 290 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12852.4 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
G2D Mark 729 562
DirectX 11 116 FPS 110 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 63 FPS
GPU Compute 5720 Ops/s 5295 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 592 & 687 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 19 & 30 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) 6114 5554
Image Segmentation (HP) 17332 11873
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15867 15799
Face Detection (HP) 32890 25103
Pose Estimation (Q) 60048 51054
Text Classification (SP) 2929 2761
Machine Translation (HP) 4631 3137
Object Detection (SP) 7844 6750
Depth Estimation (Q) 26902 24450
Style Transfer (SP) 94600 101447
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) and 1000 Laptop (Ada)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 February 26, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB207-300-A1 AD107
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (44th and 49th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1020-1627 MHz (configurable) -
Boost Clock 1627-2407 MHz (configurable) 1245-2360 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 20
Tensor Cores 80 80
Ray-tracing Cores 20 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 52-77 GPixel/s 60-113 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-193 GTexel/s 100-189 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
8.3-12.3 TFLOPS
6.4-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 35-115 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 149 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 16.9 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 113.42 MTr/mm² 118.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 95°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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