Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Mobile (Blackwell) 16 GB with 60 pipelines and 7680 shaders against the Pro 3000 Mobile (Blackwell) 12 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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 Pro 3000 Mobile (Blackwell) over RTX Pro 4000 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 83%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 44% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 114 vs 79 FPS
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Features 56 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 896 vs 672 GB/s
  • Has 30% more shading units (7680 vs 5888)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
180
121
112
83
137
87
76
56
The Witcher 3
197
167
122
66
154
130
93
50
Counter-Strike 2
275
213
152
84
224
173
126
67
Far Cry 6
148
136
117
72
121
107
88
49
Hogwarts Legacy
122
100
82
45
88
73
56
29
CoD: Modern Warfare III
164
150
118
78
111
104
74
46
Ghost of Tsushima
110
93
77
48
85
70
50
30
Cyberpunk 2077
140
127
85
38
96
86
51
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
229
213
159
85
146
133
100
51
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 174 129
1080p Ultra 147 107
1440p Ultra 114 79
4K Ultra 67 45
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 16906 12518
Solar Bay 49611 66557
Port Royal 12094 10955
Fire Strike 31680 32060
Night Raid 131505 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
Background Blur 267.1 img/sec 238.8 img/sec
Face Detection 165.5 img/sec 147.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 8.72 Gpixels/sec 6.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 12.3 Gpixels/sec 9.27 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12.6 Gpixels/sec 10.7 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.83 Gpixels/sec 1.68 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 942.6 Gpixels/sec 778.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 25637.1 FPS 23023.5 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 872 826
DirectX 11 225 FPS 212 FPS
DirectX 12 108 FPS 94 FPS
GPU Compute 7943 Ops/s 7266 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 235 & 326 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 24 & 27 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
Image Classification (SP) 11723 9790
Image Segmentation (HP) 32142 28672
Image Super Resolution (Q) 30735 26553
Face Detection (HP) 58722 53161
Pose Estimation (Q) 129551 120306
Text Classification (SP) 3539 3406
Machine Translation (HP) 6242 5910
Object Detection (SP) 14495 12573
Depth Estimation (Q) 50690 47957
Style Transfer (SP) 231154 199379
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell) and Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 March 18, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename GB203-300-A1 GB205-300-A1
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX or above
Laptop GPU ranking (5th and 13th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 975-1702 MHz (configurable) 848-1605 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1702-1875 MHz (configurable) 1605-2430 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 7680 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 60 46
Tensor Cores 240 184
Ray-tracing Cores 60 46
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 128-194 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 408-450 GTexel/s 295-447 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 80-175 W (configurable) 60-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 263 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 31.1 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 118.25 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

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

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