GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop (25/100), 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 A500 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 71.0 Good WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Fire Strike 87569 10265
Night Raid 206648 38312
Port Royal 38202 625
Solar Bay 236689 13710
Time Spy 46873 3022
Wild Life Extreme 108751 4053

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 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 A500 Laptop
1080p High 299 36
1080p Ultra 254 26
1440p Ultra 207 19
4K Ultra 125 9
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 35271912
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 66413012
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 241710-
Far Cry 6 237202190121 37372612
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 47241912
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 181411-
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 231414-
Margin of Error Low Medium
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 40352111
The Witcher 3 364327237123 322620-

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 12079
Face Detection (HP) 114685 14319
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 3298
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 8358
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 6219
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 3163
Object Detection (SP) 27802 3768
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 22995
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 53139
Text Classification (SP) 4464 2226

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 62.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 2.11 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 35.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 1.62 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 5502.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 185.1 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 GA107S
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i7 12700Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 March 22, 2022
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Base Clock 2017 MHz 370-890 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 745-1710 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 16
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 32
Shading Units 21760 2048
Tensor Cores 680 64
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Bus 512-bit 64-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
DirectX 11 341 FPS 40 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 38 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 411
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 2901 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Die Size 750 mm² 200 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TGP 575 W 20-60 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 8.7 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 43.5 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 24-55 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 48-109 GTexel/s

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