Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell) vs GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

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 5070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 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 5070 Mobile over RTX Pro 500 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (23.2 vs 8.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Features 88 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (134K vs 66K)
  • Has 2.6x more shading units (4608 vs 1792)
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 288 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
148
95
87
62
The Witcher 3 -
166
140
101
57
Counter-Strike 2 -
242
191
136
79
Far Cry 6 -
128
118
93
57
Hogwarts Legacy -
98
79
61
34
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
124
111
80
54
Ghost of Tsushima -
88
77
59
31
Cyberpunk 2077 -
104
92
60
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
165
150
113
59
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 140
1080p Ultra - 117
1440p Ultra - 88
4K Ultra - 51
Margin of Error High Low

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 - 13620
Solar Bay - 60191
Port Royal - 8718
Fire Strike - 35708
Wild Life Extreme - 24700
Night Raid - 124794
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 112.8 img/sec 213.4 img/sec
Face Detection 66.5 img/sec 130.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.36 Gpixels/sec 4.89 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3 Gpixels/sec 6.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.67 Gpixels/sec 7.41 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.85 Gpixels/sec 1.46 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 287.1 Gpixels/sec 661.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9494.1 FPS 19395.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 691 895
DirectX 11 97 FPS 185 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 91 FPS
GPU Compute 4986 Ops/s 7051 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 466 & 3607 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 7 & 440 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell)
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Levi)Geekbench 6 OpenCL141514
📘 2026-04-11 (Cyrus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL131880

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) 4878 8984
Image Segmentation (HP) 15282 26270
Image Super Resolution (Q) 12309 24606
Face Detection (HP) 27767 48283
Pose Estimation (Q) 44436 98180
Text Classification (SP) 2471 3260
Machine Translation (HP) 3958 5770
Object Detection (SP) 6278 11172
Depth Estimation (Q) 23945 43305
Style Transfer (SP) 70513 165555
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell) and GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename GB207-300-A1 GB206-300
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above
Laptop GPU ranking (35th and 16th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1357-1792 MHz (configurable) 890-1410 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1792-2332 MHz (configurable) 1410-2520 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1792 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 14 36
Tensor Cores 56 144
Ray-tracing Cores 14 36
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 68-121 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 100-131 GTexel/s 203-363 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
13-23.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 35-75 W (configurable) 50-125 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

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 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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