GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada) (55/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 45.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 53.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 87569 38278
Night Raid 206648 70978
Port Royal 38202 9606
Solar Bay 236689 63693
Time Spy 46873 15858
Wild Life Extreme 108751 32627

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High 299 157
1080p Ultra 254 132
1440p Ultra 207 100
4K Ultra 125 57
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 1421339865
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 26720214582
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 1231096931
Far Cry 6 237202190121 14013010964
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 1631089770
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 99836739
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 110927337
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 18717813272
The Witcher 3 364327237123 18415510857

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 43574
Face Detection (HP) 114685 42321
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 9400
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 17325
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 30156
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 3691
Object Detection (SP) 27802 12106
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 140618
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 283979
Text Classification (SP) 4464 3278

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 224.2 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 9.15 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 156 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.48 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 6.84 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 23725.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 882.6 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 AD103
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 185Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 March 21, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1460-2190 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 76
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 76
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 112
Shading Units 21760 9728
Tensor Cores 680 304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 304

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 512-bit 256-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 341 FPS 231 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 99 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 756
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 9393 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 750 mm² 379 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 80-175 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 45.9 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 121.11 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 164-245 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 444-666 GTexel/s

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