Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Mobile (Blackwell) 24 GB with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the Pro 4000 Mobile (Blackwell) 16 GB that utilizes 60 pipelines and 7680 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 4000 Mobile (Blackwell) over RTX Pro 5000 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • 32% higher maximum theoretical performance (37.9 vs 28.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 10% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 125 vs 114 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Features 88 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 25% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (246K vs 197K)
  • Has 37% more shading units (10496 vs 7680)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
136
126
93
180
121
112
83
The Witcher 3
206
177
128
70
197
167
122
66
Counter-Strike 2
286
218
158
81
275
213
152
84
Far Cry 6
160
144
128
80
148
136
117
72
Hogwarts Legacy
137
110
89
47
122
100
82
45
CoD: Modern Warfare III
181
168
133
89
164
150
118
78
Ghost of Tsushima
121
103
88
53
110
93
77
48
Cyberpunk 2077
155
142
96
43
140
127
85
38
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
250
240
177
99
229
213
159
85
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 188 174
1080p Ultra 160 147
1440p Ultra 125 114
4K Ultra 73 67
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 16906
Solar Bay 88183 49611
Port Royal 14393 12094
Fire Strike 46500 31680
Wild Life Extreme 28500 -
Night Raid 176939 131505
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
Background Blur 267.1 img/sec 267.1 img/sec
Face Detection 183.2 img/sec 165.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 11.5 Gpixels/sec 8.72 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 15.8 Gpixels/sec 12.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.1 Gpixels/sec 12.6 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.01 Gpixels/sec 1.83 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1330 Gpixels/sec 942.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 35463.8 FPS 25637.1 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 897 872
DirectX 11 252 FPS 225 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 108 FPS
GPU Compute 8621 Ops/s 7943 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 142 & 235 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 10 & 24 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) 12454 11723
Image Segmentation (HP) 33371 32142
Image Super Resolution (Q) 35476 30735
Face Detection (HP) 67998 58722
Pose Estimation (Q) 168369 129551
Text Classification (SP) 3491 3539
Machine Translation (HP) 6115 6242
Object Detection (SP) 16115 14495
Depth Estimation (Q) 59893 50690
Style Transfer (SP) 279891 231154
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Laptop (Blackwell) and Pro 4000 Laptop (Blackwell)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 March 18, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename GB202-300-A1 GB203-300-A1
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above
Laptop GPU ranking (2nd and 5th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 990-1680 MHz (configurable) 975-1702 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1680-1807 MHz (configurable) 1702-1875 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 10496 7680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 328 240
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 82 60
Tensor Cores 328 240
Ray-tracing Cores 82 60
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 163-180 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 551-593 GTexel/s 408-450 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
35.3-37.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 95-175 W (configurable) 80-175 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 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 16 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC - No

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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