Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell) vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
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Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell)
GB207-300-A1
We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Mobile (Blackwell) 6 GB with 14 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 26 pipelines and 3328 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 GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
- 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (16.6 vs 8.4 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Features 48 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 74% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (116K vs 66K)
- Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 288 GB/s
- Has 86% more shading units (3328 vs 1792)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | - | 137 85 77 55 |
| The Witcher 3 | - | 153 127 93 51 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | - | 228 173 120 67 |
| Far Cry 6 | - | 116 106 85 50 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - | 87 73 53 31 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | - | 108 100 72 48 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | - | 80 67 52 28 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 95 82 49 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | - | 144 130 97 53 |
| 1080p High | - | 128 |
| 1080p Ultra | - | 105 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 78 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 45 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 12018 |
| Solar Bay | - | 53003 |
| Port Royal | - | 7458 |
| Fire Strike | - | 31583 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 21605 |
| Night Raid | - | 114257 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 112.8 img/sec | 190.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 66.5 img/sec | 115.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.36 Gpixels/sec | 4.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3 Gpixels/sec | 5.28 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.67 Gpixels/sec | 7.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.85 Gpixels/sec | 1.32 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 287.1 Gpixels/sec | 523.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 9494.1 FPS | 16169.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 691 | 840 |
| DirectX 11 | 97 FPS | 162 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 67 FPS | 79 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 4986 Ops/s | 6144 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell)
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 132783 |
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Steel Nomad Light | 13919 |
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) | 4878 | 7525 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 15282 | 23623 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 12309 | 19973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 27767 | 41164 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 44436 | 77589 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2471 | 2880 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3958 | 5811 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6278 | 9966 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 23945 | 37206 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 70513 | 136961 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell) and GeForce RTX 5060 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 18, 2025 | April 14, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | GB207-300-A1 | GB206 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 255H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (35th and 20th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1357-1792 MHz (configurable) | 952-1455 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1792-2332 MHz (configurable) | 1455-2497 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 3328 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 56 | 104 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 24 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 14 | 26 |
| Tensor Cores | 56 | 104 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 14 | 26 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 24MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 43-56 GPixel/s | 70-120 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 100-131 GTexel/s | 151-260 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-75 W (configurable) | 45-115 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 149 mm² | 181 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 16.9 billion | 21.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 113.42 MTr/mm² | 120.99 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 89°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 24000 Mbps | 24000 Mbps |
| Bus | 96-bit | 128-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 | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 2.1b |
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