GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop (44/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 67.0 Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 39.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 31609 87569
Night Raid 115260 206648
Port Royal 7453 38202
Solar Bay 52855 236689
Time Spy 12009 46873
Wild Life Extreme 21631 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 12.0 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 127 299
1080p Ultra 104 254
1440p Ultra 77 207
4K Ultra 44 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1071007148 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 22716912569 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 92815123 26123316077
Far Cry 6 1141038246 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 135867556 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 82654929 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 89745427 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1441289650 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1541298948 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 37206 85572
Face Detection (HP) 41164 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7525 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 23623 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19973 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 5811 8184
Object Detection (SP) 9966 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 77589 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 136961 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2880 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 190.8 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.28 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 115.9 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.32 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.1 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.17 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16169.3 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 523.3 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GB206 GB202-300
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245HXor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released April 14, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 952-1455 MHz (configurable) 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1455-2497 MHz (configurable) 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 26 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 26 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 3328 21760
Tensor Cores 104 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 104 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 162 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 79 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 844 1410
GPU Compute 6046 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 181 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max. Temperature 89°C
TGP 45-115 W (configurable) 575 W
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 70-120 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 151-260 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-10(lnwponlawat) GeekBench

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