GeForce RTX 5090 vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop (67/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 71.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Fire Strike 87569 51145
Night Raid 206648 177560
Port Royal 38202 16530
Solar Bay 236689 115087
Time Spy 46873 25015
Wild Life Extreme 108751 47290

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
CUDA 12.0 10.1
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1a
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 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
1080p High 299 203
1080p Ultra 254 173
1440p Ultra 207 136
4K Ultra 125 81
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 196190149101
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 29322216284
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 17715311051
Far Cry 6 237202190121 16715313483
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 212149140111
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 1351149663
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 1511209755
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 273257194104
The Witcher 3 364327237123 22520114375

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 57894
Face Detection (HP) 114685 67213
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 12121
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 33054
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 33652
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 6292
Object Detection (SP) 27802 15618
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 151395
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 272117
Text Classification (SP) 4464 3209

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 266.5 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 15.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 196.9 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.89 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 14.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 29783 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 1150 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 275HXor above
Released January 7, 2025 January 6, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Base Clock 2017 MHz 990-1515 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1515-2160 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 82
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 82
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 112
Shading Units 21760 10496
Tensor Cores 680 328
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 328

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Bus 512-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
DirectX 11 341 FPS 266 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 136 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1101
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 11314 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Die Size 750 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 95-175 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 170-242 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 497-708 GTexel/s

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