Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Mobile (Blackwell) with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile that utilizes 82 pipelines and 10496 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 5090 Mobile over RTX Pro 5000 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Shows 9% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 136 vs 125 FPS
  • 20% higher maximum theoretical performance (45.3 vs 37.9 TFLOPS)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
136
126
93
212
149
140
111
The Witcher 3
206
177
128
70
225
201
143
75
Counter-Strike 2
286
218
158
81
293
222
162
84
Far Cry 6
160
144
128
80
167
153
134
83
Hogwarts Legacy
137
110
89
47
151
120
97
55
CoD: Modern Warfare III
181
168
133
89
196
190
149
101
Ghost of Tsushima
121
103
88
53
135
114
96
63
Cyberpunk 2077
155
142
96
43
177
153
110
51
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
250
240
177
99
273
257
194
104
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 188 203
1080p Ultra 160 173
1440p Ultra 125 136
4K Ultra 73 81
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 21719 25015
Solar Bay 88183 115087
Port Royal 14393 16530
Fire Strike 46500 51145
Wild Life Extreme 28500 47290
Night Raid 176939 177560
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 267.1 img/sec 266.5 img/sec
Face Detection 183.2 img/sec 196.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 11.5 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 15.8 Gpixels/sec 15.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.1 Gpixels/sec 14.4 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.01 Gpixels/sec 1.89 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1330 Gpixels/sec 1150 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 35463.8 FPS 29783 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 897 1108
DirectX 11 252 FPS 266 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 135 FPS
GPU Compute 8621 Ops/s 11399 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 142 & 1464 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 10 & 75 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
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 12454 12121
Image Segmentation (HP) 33371 33054
Image Super Resolution (Q) 35476 33652
Face Detection (HP) 67998 67213
Pose Estimation (Q) 168369 151395
Text Classification (SP) 3491 3209
Machine Translation (HP) 6115 6292
Object Detection (SP) 16115 15618
Depth Estimation (Q) 59893 57894
Style Transfer (SP) 279891 272117
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell) and GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename GB202-300-A1 GB203-400
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above
Laptop GPU ranking (2nd and 1st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 990-1680 MHz (configurable) 990-1515 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1680-1807 MHz (configurable) 1515-2160 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 10496 10496
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 328 328
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 112
Compute Units (Pipelines) 82 82
Tensor Cores 328 328
Ray-tracing Cores 82 82
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 64MB shared 64MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 188-202 GPixel/s 170-242 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 551-593 GTexel/s 497-708 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
31.8-45.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 95-175 W (configurable) 95-175 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 378 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7
Memory Size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12 10.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1a

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