Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell) vs Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Mobile (Blackwell) 6 GB with 14 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the Pro 1000 Mobile (Blackwell) 8 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 Pro 1000 Mobile (Blackwell) over RTX Pro 500 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • 46% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.3 vs 8.4 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Features 24 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 288 GB/s
  • Achieves 32% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (88K vs 66K)
  • Has 43% more shading units (2560 vs 1792)

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
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)
Background Blur 112.8 img/sec 137.7 img/sec
Face Detection 66.5 img/sec 95 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.36 Gpixels/sec 2.99 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3 Gpixels/sec 3.89 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.67 Gpixels/sec 4.7 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.85 Gpixels/sec 1.11 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 287.1 Gpixels/sec 396.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9494.1 FPS 12852.4 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 691 729
DirectX 11 97 FPS 116 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 72 FPS
GPU Compute 4986 Ops/s 5720 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 466 & 592 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 7 & 19 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) 4878 6114
Image Segmentation (HP) 15282 17332
Image Super Resolution (Q) 12309 15867
Face Detection (HP) 27767 32890
Pose Estimation (Q) 44436 60048
Text Classification (SP) 2471 2929
Machine Translation (HP) 3958 4631
Object Detection (SP) 6278 7844
Depth Estimation (Q) 23945 26902
Style Transfer (SP) 70513 94600
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Laptop (Blackwell) and Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 March 18, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename GB207-300-A1 GB207-300-A1
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255H or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above
Laptop GPU ranking (35th and 44th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1357-1792 MHz (configurable) 1020-1627 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1792-2332 MHz (configurable) 1627-2407 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1792 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 14 20
Tensor Cores 56 80
Ray-tracing Cores 14 20
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 52-77 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 100-131 GTexel/s 130-193 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 35-75 W (configurable) 35-115 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 149 mm² 149 mm²
Transistor Count 16.9 billion 16.9 billion
Transistor Density 113.42 MTr/mm² 113.42 MTr/mm²

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
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b

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