GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada) (51/100), 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 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 45.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 51.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 87569 36295
Night Raid 206648 130940
Port Royal 38202 10118
Solar Bay 236689 67951
Time Spy 46873 15498
Wild Life Extreme 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
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 4000 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High 299 155
1080p Ultra 254 131
1440p Ultra 207 99
4K Ultra 125 57
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 1371289665
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 26220514480
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 1201097130
Far Cry 6 237202190121 14012810664
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 1591089569
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 97826638
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 110927136
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 19017413271
The Witcher 3 364327237123 18015511258

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 38963
Face Detection (HP) 114685 37971
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 8658
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 17759
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 28281
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 4038
Object Detection (SP) 27802 11288
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 113009
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 236141
Text Classification (SP) 4464 3535

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 187.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 8.53 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 139.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.55 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 8.38 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 5.71 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 16849 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 577.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 AD104
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 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1465-2260 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 58
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 48MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 58
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 80
Shading Units 21760 7424
Tensor Cores 680 232
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 232

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 512-bit 192-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 12 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 341 FPS 214 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 96 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 714
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 8532 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 750 mm² 294 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 60-175 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 35.8 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 121.77 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 117-181 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 340-524 GTexel/s

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