Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs 5000 Laptop (Ada)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Mobile (Blackwell) 24 GB with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the 2 years older 5000 Mobile (Ada) 16 GB that utilizes 76 pipelines and 9728 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 5000 Mobile (Ada) over RTX Pro 5000 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • Performs better (up to 36%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 25% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 125 vs 100 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 56% higher memory bandwidth: 896 vs 576 GB/s
  • Achieves 47% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (246K vs 168K)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
136
126
93
163
108
97
70
The Witcher 3
206
177
128
70
184
155
108
57
Counter-Strike 2
286
218
158
81
267
202
145
82
Far Cry 6
160
144
128
80
140
130
109
64
Hogwarts Legacy
137
110
89
47
110
92
73
37
CoD: Modern Warfare III
181
168
133
89
142
133
98
65
Ghost of Tsushima
121
103
88
53
99
83
67
39
Cyberpunk 2077
155
142
96
43
123
109
69
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
250
240
177
99
187
178
132
72
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 188 157
1080p Ultra 160 132
1440p Ultra 125 100
4K Ultra 73 57
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 21719 15858
Solar Bay 88183 63693
Port Royal 14393 9606
Fire Strike 46500 38278
Wild Life Extreme 28500 32627
Night Raid 176939 70978
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 224.2 img/sec
Face Detection 183.2 img/sec 156 img/sec
Horizon Detection 11.5 Gpixels/sec 6.84 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 15.8 Gpixels/sec 9.15 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.1 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.01 Gpixels/sec 1.48 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1330 Gpixels/sec 882.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 35463.8 FPS 23725.9 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 897 756
DirectX 11 252 FPS 231 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 99 FPS
GPU Compute 8621 Ops/s 9393 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 142 & 412 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 10 & 65 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 9400
Image Segmentation (HP) 33371 17325
Image Super Resolution (Q) 35476 30156
Face Detection (HP) 67998 42321
Pose Estimation (Q) 168369 140618
Text Classification (SP) 3491 3278
Machine Translation (HP) 6115 3691
Object Detection (SP) 16115 12106
Depth Estimation (Q) 59893 43574
Style Transfer (SP) 279891 283979
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

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

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 March 21, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB202-300-A1 AD103
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (2nd and 8th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 990-1680 MHz (configurable) -
Boost Clock 1680-1807 MHz (configurable) 1460-2190 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 10496 9728
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 328 304
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 112
Compute Units (Pipelines) 82 76
Tensor Cores 328 304
Ray-tracing Cores 82 76
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 164-245 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 551-593 GTexel/s 444-666 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
28.4-42.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 95-175 W (configurable) 80-175 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 379 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 45.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 121.11 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 95°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC - Yes
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.2 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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