GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop (34/100), 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 A3000 Laptop
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 28.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Fire Strike 87569 19662
Night Raid 206648 75487
Port Royal 38202 4476
Solar Bay 236689 33550
Time Spy 46873 7575
Wild Life Extreme 108751 3521

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 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 A3000 Laptop
1080p High 299 91
1080p Ultra 254 73
1440p Ultra 207 53
4K Ultra 125 28
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 72664329
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 1641228943
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 61543115
Far Cry 6 237202190121 86776130
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 104655237
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 55453517
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 62513619
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 97886032
The Witcher 3 364327237123 114896633

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 20307
Face Detection (HP) 114685 21457
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 4552
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 11804
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 11986
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 2727
Object Detection (SP) 27802 6308
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 52678
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 111653
Text Classification (SP) 4464 2248

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 140.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 5.52 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 73 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.9 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 4.08 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 12769.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 414.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 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 i7 12800HXor above
Released January 7, 2025 April 12, 2021
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Successor -Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Base Clock 2017 MHz 600-1080 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1180-1560 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 32
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 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 64
Shading Units 21760 4096
Tensor Cores 680 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 128

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
Bus 512-bit 192-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 11000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 6 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
DirectX 11 341 FPS 102 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 56 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 555
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 5426 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX A3000 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 60-130 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 A3000 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 76-100 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 151-200 GTexel/s

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