GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop (39/100), 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 A5000 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 39.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 33.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Fire Strike 87569 26200
Night Raid 206648 61009
Port Royal 38202 5817
Solar Bay 236689 40186
Time Spy 46873 9295
Wild Life Extreme 108751 20653

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
CUDA 12.0 8.6
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 2
DirectX 12.2 12
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 A5000 Laptop
1080p High 299 105
1080p Ultra 254 85
1440p Ultra 207 62
4K Ultra 125 35
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 85795336
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 18714310251
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 74653917
Far Cry 6 237202190121 100877039
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 114716241
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 66534125
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 70594420
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 1151057441
The Witcher 3 364327237123 1321057543

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 25256
Face Detection (HP) 114685 30795
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 6590
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 12226
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 16682
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 3207
Object Detection (SP) 27802 8583
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 71291
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 149822
Text Classification (SP) 4464 2115

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 172.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 7.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 103.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 5.61 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 5.34 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 14218.2 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 474.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 GA104
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i9 12900HXor above
Released January 7, 2025 April 12, 2021
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Base Clock 2017 MHz 780-1215 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1245-1770 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 48
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 96
Shading Units 21760 6144
Tensor Cores 680 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 192

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Bus 512-bit 256-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
DirectX 11 341 FPS 138 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 74 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 663
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 6941 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Die Size 750 mm² 392 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TGP 575 W 80-165 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 120-170 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 239-340 GTexel/s

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