Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs 4000 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell)
GB203-300-A1
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Mobile (Blackwell) 16 GB with 60 pipelines and 7680 shaders against the 2 years older 4000 Mobile (Ada) 12 GB that utilizes 58 pipelines and 7424 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 Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell)
- Performs better (up to 30%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 114 vs 99 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 2.1x higher memory bandwidth: 896 vs 432 GB/s
- Achieves 42% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (197K vs 139K)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
- 17% higher maximum theoretical performance (33.6 vs 28.8 TFLOPS)
- Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 180 121 112 83 |
159 108 95 69 |
| The Witcher 3 | 197 167 122 66 |
180 155 112 58 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 275 213 152 84 |
262 205 144 80 |
| Far Cry 6 | 148 136 117 72 |
140 128 106 64 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 122 100 82 45 |
110 92 71 36 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 164 150 118 78 |
137 128 96 65 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 110 93 77 48 |
97 82 66 38 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 140 127 85 38 |
120 109 71 30 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 229 213 159 85 |
190 174 132 71 |
| 1080p High | 174 | 155 |
| 1080p Ultra | 147 | 131 |
| 1440p Ultra | 114 | 99 |
| 4K Ultra | 67 | 57 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 16906 | 15498 |
| Solar Bay | 49611 | 67951 |
| Port Royal | 12094 | 10118 |
| Fire Strike | 31680 | 36295 |
| Night Raid | 131505 | 130940 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 267.1 img/sec | 187.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 165.5 img/sec | 139.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 8.72 Gpixels/sec | 5.71 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 12.3 Gpixels/sec | 8.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 12.6 Gpixels/sec | 8.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.83 Gpixels/sec | 1.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 942.6 Gpixels/sec | 577.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 25637.1 FPS | 16849 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 872 | 714 |
| DirectX 11 | 225 FPS | 214 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 108 FPS | 96 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7943 Ops/s | 8532 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) | 11723 | 8658 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 32142 | 17759 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 30735 | 28281 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 58722 | 37971 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 129551 | 113009 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3539 | 3535 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6242 | 4038 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 14495 | 11288 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 50690 | 38963 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 231154 | 236141 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell) and 4000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 18, 2025 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GB203-300-A1 | AD104 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (5th and 12th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 975-1702 MHz (configurable) | - |
| Boost Clock | 1702-1875 MHz (configurable) | 1465-2260 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 7680 | 7424 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 240 | 232 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 60 | 58 |
| Tensor Cores | 240 | 232 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 60 | 58 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 48MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 163-180 GPixel/s | 117-181 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 408-450 GTexel/s | 340-524 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-175 W (configurable) | 60-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 378 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.6 billion | 35.8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.63 MTr/mm² | 121.77 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | Yes |
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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